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Red Hat: RHSA-2023:2883-01 Moderate: Libtiff Update Security Issue

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Calendar Grey May 16, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has announced a significant security patch for libtiff that tackles critical vulnerabilities. Ensure you install the update at your earliest convenience!
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: out-of-bounds write in _TIFFmemcpy in libtiff/tif_unix.c (CVE-2022-3627)
* libtiff: integer overflow in function TIFFReadRGBATileExt of the file (CVE-2022-3970)
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 8.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update integer overflow red hat enterprise libtiff out of bounds

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3627 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3970 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.8_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: libtiff-4.0.9-27.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: libtiff-4.0.9-27.el8.aarch64.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.9-27.el8.aarch64.rpm libtiff-debugsource-4.0.9-27.el8.aarch64.rpm libtiff-devel-4.0.9-27.el8.aarch64.rpm libtiff-tools-debuginfo-4.0.9-27.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: libtiff-4.0.9-27.el8.ppc64le.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.9-27.el8.ppc64le.rpm libtiff-debugsource-4.0.9-27.el8.ppc64le.rpm libtiff-devel-4.0.9-27.el8.ppc64le.rpm libtiff-tools-debuginfo-4.0.9-27.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: libtiff-4.0.9-27.el8.s390x.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.9-27.el8.s390x.rpm libtiff-debugsource-4.0.9-27.el8.s390x.rpm libtiff-devel-4.0.9-27.el8.s390x.rpm libtiff-tools-debuginfo-4.0.9-27.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: libtiff-4.0.9-27.el8.i686.rpm libtiff-4.0.9-27.el8.x86_64.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.9-27.el8.i686.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.9-27.el8.x86_64.rpm libtiff-debugsource-4.0.9-27.el8.i686.rpm libtiff-debugsource-4.0.9-27.el8.x86_64.rpm libtiff-devel-4.0.9-27.el8.i686.rpm libtiff-devel-4.0.9-27.el8.x86_64.rpm libtiff-tools-debuginfo-4.0.9-27.el8.i686.rpm libtiff-tools-debuginfo-4.0.9-27.el8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8):
aarch64: libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.9-27.el8.aarch64.rpm libtiff-debugsource-4.0.9-27.el8.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:2883-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2883
Issue date: 2023-05-16

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update integer overflow red hat enterprise libtiff out of bounds

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

Bugs Fixed

2142742 - CVE-2022-3627 libtiff: out-of-bounds write in _TIFFmemcpy in libtiff/tif_unix.c

2148918 - CVE-2022-3970 libtiff: integer overflow in function TIFFReadRGBATileExt of the file

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