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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2022:1810-01 Moderate: DoS Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Ubuntu releases a patch for ImageMagick addressing a vulnerability that could result in remote code execution. Protect your systems!
An update for libtiff is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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: a buffer overflow via the "invertImage()" may lead to DoS (CVE-2020-19131)
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 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update buffer overflow Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity Denial of Service libtiff issue

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-19131 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.6_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: libtiff-4.0.9-21.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: libtiff-4.0.9-21.el8.aarch64.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.9-21.el8.aarch64.rpm libtiff-debugsource-4.0.9-21.el8.aarch64.rpm libtiff-devel-4.0.9-21.el8.aarch64.rpm libtiff-tools-debuginfo-4.0.9-21.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: libtiff-4.0.9-21.el8.ppc64le.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.9-21.el8.ppc64le.rpm libtiff-debugsource-4.0.9-21.el8.ppc64le.rpm libtiff-devel-4.0.9-21.el8.ppc64le.rpm libtiff-tools-debuginfo-4.0.9-21.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: libtiff-4.0.9-21.el8.s390x.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.9-21.el8.s390x.rpm libtiff-debugsource-4.0.9-21.el8.s390x.rpm libtiff-devel-4.0.9-21.el8.s390x.rpm libtiff-tools-debuginfo-4.0.9-21.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: libtiff-4.0.9-21.el8.i686.rpm libtiff-4.0.9-21.el8.x86_64.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.9-21.el8.i686.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.9-21.el8.x86_64.rpm libtiff-debugsource-4.0.9-21.el8.i686.rpm libtiff-debugsource-4.0.9-21.el8.x86_64.rpm libtiff-devel-4.0.9-21.el8.i686.rpm libtiff-devel-4.0.9-21.el8.x86_64.rpm libtiff-tools-debuginfo-4.0.9-21.el8.i686.rpm libtiff-tools-debuginfo-4.0.9-21.el8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8):
aarch64: libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.9-21.el8.aarch64.rpm libtiff-debugsource-4.0.9-21.el8.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:1810-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1810
Issue date: 2022-05-10

Topic

An update for libtiff is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update buffer overflow Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity Denial of Service libtiff issue

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2004031 - CVE-2020-19131 libtiff: a buffer overflow via the "invertImage()" may lead to DoS

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