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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Moderate: libtiff security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2024:5079-03
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5079
Issue date:         2024-08-07
Revision:           03
CVE Names:          CVE-2018-15209
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Summary: 

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 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):

* libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow in ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip in tif_dirread.c (CVE-2018-15209)

* libtiff: Buffer Overflow via /libtiff/tools/tiffcrop.c (CVE-2023-25433)

* libtiff: heap-based buffer overflow in cpStripToTile() in tools/tiffcp.c (CVE-2023-6228)

* libtiff: Segment fault in libtiff  in TIFFReadRGBATileExt() leading to denial of service (CVE-2023-52356)

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.


Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258



CVEs:

CVE-2018-15209

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1614051
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218744
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240995
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2251344