Issued:
2019-08-06
Updated:
2019-08-06

RHSA-2019:2051 - Low: compat-libtiff3 security update

Synopsis

Low: compat-libtiff3 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Low

Topic

An update for compat-libtiff3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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 compat-libtiff3 package provides libtiff 3, an older version of libtiff library for manipulating TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image format files.

Security Fix(es):

  • libtiff: NULL pointer dereference in tif_print.c:TIFFPrintDirectory() causes a denial of service (CVE-2018-7456)

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 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-12.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-12.el7.src.rpm
  • compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-12.el7.i686.rpm
  • compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-12.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-12.el7.s390.rpm
  • compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-12.el7.ppc.rpm
  • compat-libtiff3-debuginfo-3.9.4-12.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • compat-libtiff3-debuginfo-3.9.4-12.el7.i686.rpm
  • compat-libtiff3-debuginfo-3.9.4-12.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-12.el7.s390x.rpm
  • compat-libtiff3-debuginfo-3.9.4-12.el7.ppc.rpm
  • compat-libtiff3-debuginfo-3.9.4-12.el7.s390x.rpm
  • compat-libtiff3-debuginfo-3.9.4-12.el7.s390.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information