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Rocky Linux 9 RLSA-2026-42668 libtiff Important Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey July 22, 2026
Scroller Rockylinux
A security update for libtiff on Rocky Linux addresses an important buffer overflow issue that impacts system security.
A security update for libtiff on Rocky Linux 9 addresses a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-12912), with a CVSS score of 7.3 indicating significant risk.

Summary

An update is available for libtiff. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list


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security advisory security issue buffer overflow important libtiff rocky linux

RPMs

libtiff-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.aarch64.rpm

libtiff-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.i686.rpm

libtiff-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.src.rpm

libtiff-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.x86_64.rpm

libtiff-debuginfo-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.aarch64.rpm

libtiff-debuginfo-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.i686.rpm

libtiff-debuginfo-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.x86_64.rpm

libtiff-debugsource-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.aarch64.rpm

libtiff-debugsource-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.i686.rpm

libtiff-debugsource-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.x86_64.rpm

libtiff-devel-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.aarch64.rpm

libtiff-devel-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.i686.rpm

libtiff-devel-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.x86_64.rpm

libtiff-tools-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.aarch64.rpm

libtiff-tools-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.s390x.rpm

libtiff-tools-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.x86_64.rpm

libtiff-tools-debuginfo-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.aarch64.rpm

libtiff-tools-debuginfo-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.s390x.rpm

libtiff-tools-debuginfo-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.x86_64.rpm

libtiff-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.ppc64le.rpm

libtiff-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.s390x.rpm

libtiff-debuginfo-0:4.4.0-18.el9_8.1.ppc64le.rpm

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References

No references

CVES

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2026-12912

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Critical

Name: RLSA-2026:42668
Affected Products: Rocky Linux 9

Fixes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492871


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