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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2014-8127: Security patch for libtiff (ALAS-2016-733)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2014-8127: Security patch for libtiff (ALAS-2016-733)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/31/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/22/2016
Modified
05/03/2019

Description

LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted TIFF image to the (1) checkInkNamesString function in tif_dir.c in the thumbnail tool, (2) compresscontig function in tiff2bw.c in the tiff2bw tool, (3) putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in the tiff2rgba tool, LZWPreDecode function in tif_lzw.c in the (4) tiff2ps or (5) tiffdither tool, (6) NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in the tiffmedian tool, or (7) TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c in the tiffset tool.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-libtiff

References

  • RHSA-2016:1546
  • RHSA-2016:1547
  • ALAS-2016-733
  • DSA-3273
  • 72323
  • 1032760
  • GLSA-201701-16
  • CVE-2014-8127
  • USN-2553-1
  • USN-2553-2
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