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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-17100: Security patch for libtiff (ALAS-2019-1306)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 16, 2018
Added
Oct 11, 2019
Modified
Jul 17, 2021

Description

An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There is a int32 overflow in multiply_ms in tools/ppm2tiff.c, which can cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image file.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-libtiff
Title
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