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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-9535: Security patch for libtiff, compat-libtiff3 (ALAS-2017-802)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-9535: Security patch for libtiff, compat-libtiff3 (ALAS-2017-802)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/22/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/07/2017
Modified
04/16/2020

Description

tif_predict.h and tif_predict.c in libtiff 4.0.6 have assertions that can lead to assertion failures in debug mode, or buffer overflows in release mode, when dealing with unusual tile size like YCbCr with subsampling. Reported as MSVR 35105, aka "Predictor heap-buffer-overflow."

Solution(s)

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

References

  • RHSA-2017:0225
  • ALAS-2017-802
  • DLA-795-1
  • DLA-880-1
  • DSA-3762
  • DSA-3844
  • 94484
  • 94744
  • CVE-2016-9535
  • USN-3212-1
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