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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2020-3902-01 Moderate: libtiff Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 29, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical libtiff patch released for CentOS 7 resolving buffer overflows and additional vulnerabilities.
An update for libtiff is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

All running applications linked against libtiff must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Summary

The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files.
Security Fix(es):
* libtiff: integer overflow in _TIFFCheckMalloc and _TIFFCheckRealloc in tif_aux.c (CVE-2019-14973)
* libtiff: integer overflow leading to heap-based buffer overflow in tif_getimage.c (CVE-2019-17546)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat Enterprise Linux heap overflow integer overflow libtiff

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14973 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17546 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.9_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: libtiff-4.0.3-35.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: libtiff-4.0.3-35.el7.i686.rpm libtiff-4.0.3-35.el7.x86_64.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.el7.i686.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.el7.i686.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.el7.x86_64.rpm libtiff-devel-4.0.3-35.el7.i686.rpm libtiff-devel-4.0.3-35.el7.x86_64.rpm libtiff-static-4.0.3-35.el7.i686.rpm libtiff-static-4.0.3-35.el7.x86_64.rpm libtiff-tools-4.0.3-35.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: libtiff-4.0.3-35.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: libtiff-4.0.3-35.el7.i686.rpm libtiff-4.0.3-35.el7.x86_64.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.el7.i686.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.el7.i686.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.el7.x86_64.rpm libtiff-devel-4.0.3-35.el7.i686.rpm libtiff-devel-4.0.3-35.el7.x86_64.rpm libtiff-static-4.0.3-35.el7.i686.rpm libtiff-static-4.0.3-35.el7.x86_64.rpm libtiff-tools-4.0.3-35.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: libtiff-4.0.3-35.el7.src.rpm
ppc64: libtiff-4.0.3-35.el7.ppc.rpm libtiff-4.0.3-35.el7.ppc64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:3902-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3902
Issue date: 2020-09-29

Topic

An update for libtiff is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat Enterprise Linux heap overflow integer overflow libtiff

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1745951 - CVE-2019-14973 libtiff: integer overflow in _TIFFCheckMalloc and _TIFFCheckRealloc in tif_aux.c

1765705 - CVE-2019-17546 libtiff: integer overflow leading to heap-based buffer overflow in tif_getimage.c

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