Issued:

2014-02-27

Updated:

2014-02-27

RHSA-2014:0223 - Moderate: libtiff security update

Synopsis

Moderate: libtiff security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Updated libtiff packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files.

A heap-based buffer overflow and a use-after-free flaw were found in the tiff2pdf tool. An attacker could use these flaws to create a specially crafted TIFF file that would cause tiff2pdf to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-1960, CVE-2013-4232)

Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in the gif2tiff tool. An attacker could use these flaws to create a specially crafted GIF file that could cause gif2tiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-4231, CVE-2013-4243, CVE-2013-4244)

Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in the tiff2pdf tool. An attacker could use these flaws to create a specially crafted TIFF file that would cause tiff2pdf to crash. (CVE-2013-1961)

Red Hat would like to thank Emmanuel Bouillon of NCI Agency for reporting CVE-2013-1960 and CVE-2013-1961. The CVE-2013-4243 issue was discovered by Murray McAllister of the Red Hat Security Response Team, and the CVE-2013-4244 issue was discovered by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team.

All libtiff users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All running applications linked against libtiff must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• libtiff-3.8.2-19.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-19.el5_10.s390.rpm
• libtiff-3.8.2-19.el5_10.ppc.rpm
• libtiff-3.8.2-19.el5_10.i386.rpm
• libtiff-3.8.2-19.el5_10.s390x.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-19.el5_10.ppc.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-19.el5_10.ia64.rpm
• libtiff-devel-3.8.2-19.el5_10.i386.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-19.el5_10.i386.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-19.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
• libtiff-devel-3.8.2-19.el5_10.ia64.rpm
• libtiff-3.8.2-19.el5_10.ia64.rpm
• libtiff-devel-3.8.2-19.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-19.el5_10.s390x.rpm
• libtiff-3.8.2-19.el5_10.ppc64.rpm
• libtiff-devel-3.8.2-19.el5_10.s390x.rpm
• libtiff-3.8.2-19.el5_10.s390.rpm
• libtiff-3.8.2-19.el5_10.src.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-19.el5_10.ppc64.rpm
• libtiff-devel-3.8.2-19.el5_10.ppc.rpm
• libtiff-devel-3.8.2-19.el5_10.ppc64.rpm
• libtiff-devel-3.8.2-19.el5_10.s390.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 952131
• This content is not included.BZ - 952158
• This content is not included.BZ - 995965
• This content is not included.BZ - 995975
• This content is not included.BZ - 996052
• This content is not included.BZ - 996468

CVEs

• CVE-2013-4232
• CVE-2013-4231
• CVE-2013-4244
• CVE-2013-1961
• CVE-2013-1960
• CVE-2013-4243

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.