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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2014-9655: Security patch for compat-libtiff3 ((Multiple Advisories))

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2014-9655: Security patch for compat-libtiff3 ((Multiple Advisories))

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/13/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/22/2016
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

The (1) putcontig8bitYCbCr21tile function in tif_getimage.c or (2) NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in LibTIFF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory access) via a crafted TIFF image, as demonstrated by libtiff-cvs-1.tif and libtiff-cvs-2.tif.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-compat-libtiff3
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-libtiff

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