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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-10779: Security patch for libtiff (ALAS-2019-1306)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-10779: Security patch for libtiff (ALAS-2019-1306)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/07/2018
Created
10/12/2019
Added
10/11/2019
Modified
10/11/2019

Description

TIFFWriteScanline in tif_write.c in LibTIFF 3.8.2 has a heap-based buffer over-read, as demonstrated by bmp2tiff.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-libtiff

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