Issued:

2017-02-01

Updated:

2017-02-01

RHSA-2017:0225 - Moderate: libtiff security update

Synopsis

Moderate: libtiff security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for libtiff is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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

Security Fix(es):

• Multiple flaws have been discovered in libtiff. A remote attacker could exploit these flaws to cause a crash or memory corruption and, possibly, execute arbitrary code by tricking an application linked against libtiff into processing specially crafted files. (CVE-2016-9533, CVE-2016-9534, CVE-2016-9535)

• Multiple flaws have been discovered in various libtiff tools (tiff2pdf, tiffcrop, tiffcp, bmp2tiff). By tricking a user into processing a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit these flaws to cause a crash or memory corruption and, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the libtiff tool. (CVE-2015-8870, CVE-2016-5652, CVE-2016-9540, CVE-2016-9537, CVE-2016-9536)

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.

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• libtiff-static-3.9.4-21.el6_8.ppc64.rpm
• libtiff-tools-4.0.3-27.el7_3.ppc64.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-27.el7_3.ppc64le.rpm
• libtiff-static-3.9.4-21.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
• libtiff-static-4.0.3-27.el7_3.s390.rpm
• libtiff-devel-3.9.4-21.el6_8.i686.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-3.9.4-21.el6_8.i686.rpm
• libtiff-static-4.0.3-27.el7_3.s390x.rpm
• libtiff-static-4.0.3-27.el7_3.i686.rpm
• libtiff-static-4.0.3-27.el7_3.ppc64le.rpm
• libtiff-static-3.9.4-21.el6_8.i686.rpm
• libtiff-4.0.3-27.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-27.el7_3.ppc.rpm
• libtiff-devel-3.9.4-21.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-3.9.4-21.el6_8.ppc64.rpm
• libtiff-3.9.4-21.el6_8.ppc.rpm
• libtiff-4.0.3-27.el7_3.ppc.rpm
• libtiff-4.0.3-27.el7_3.s390.rpm
• libtiff-devel-4.0.3-27.el7_3.aarch64.rpm
• libtiff-devel-3.9.4-21.el6_8.ppc.rpm
• libtiff-tools-4.0.3-27.el7_3.aarch64.rpm
• libtiff-devel-4.0.3-27.el7_3.ppc.rpm
• libtiff-tools-4.0.3-27.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
• libtiff-4.0.3-27.el7_3.ppc64.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-3.9.4-21.el6_8.s390.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-3.9.4-21.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-27.el7_3.aarch64.rpm
• libtiff-static-4.0.3-27.el7_3.ppc64.rpm
• libtiff-devel-4.0.3-27.el7_3.s390.rpm
• libtiff-devel-4.0.3-27.el7_3.ppc64le.rpm
• libtiff-4.0.3-27.el7_3.i686.rpm
• libtiff-3.9.4-21.el6_8.s390x.rpm
• libtiff-devel-3.9.4-21.el6_8.ppc64.rpm
• libtiff-3.9.4-21.el6_8.ppc64.rpm
• libtiff-4.0.3-27.el7_3.aarch64.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-3.9.4-21.el6_8.s390x.rpm
• libtiff-devel-4.0.3-27.el7_3.s390x.rpm
• libtiff-4.0.3-27.el7_3.ppc64le.rpm
• libtiff-static-3.9.4-21.el6_8.s390x.rpm
• libtiff-static-4.0.3-27.el7_3.aarch64.rpm
• libtiff-devel-4.0.3-27.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
• libtiff-4.0.3-27.el7_3.s390x.rpm
• libtiff-4.0.3-27.el7_3.src.rpm
• libtiff-devel-4.0.3-27.el7_3.ppc64.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-3.9.4-21.el6_8.ppc.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-27.el7_3.ppc64.rpm
• libtiff-devel-3.9.4-21.el6_8.s390x.rpm
• libtiff-3.9.4-21.el6_8.i686.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-27.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
• libtiff-tools-4.0.3-27.el7_3.ppc64le.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-27.el7_3.i686.rpm
• libtiff-3.9.4-21.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
• libtiff-devel-3.9.4-21.el6_8.s390.rpm
• libtiff-3.9.4-21.el6_8.s390.rpm
• libtiff-static-4.0.3-27.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-27.el7_3.s390x.rpm
• libtiff-3.9.4-21.el6_8.src.rpm
• libtiff-devel-4.0.3-27.el7_3.i686.rpm
• libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-27.el7_3.s390.rpm
• libtiff-tools-4.0.3-27.el7_3.s390x.rpm
• libtiff-static-4.0.3-27.el7_3.ppc.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1389222
• This content is not included.BZ - 1397751
• This content is not included.BZ - 1397755
• This content is not included.BZ - 1397758
• This content is not included.BZ - 1397760
• This content is not included.BZ - 1397768
• This content is not included.BZ - 1397769
• This content is not included.BZ - 1402778

CVEs

• CVE-2015-8870
• CVE-2016-5652
• CVE-2016-9533
• CVE-2016-9534
• CVE-2016-9535
• CVE-2016-9536
• CVE-2016-9537
• CVE-2016-9540

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.