Advisories » MGASA-2016-0017

Updated libtiff package fixes security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 14 Jan 2016
Modification date: 14 Jan 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2015-1547 , CVE-2015-8665 , CVE-2015-8683

Description

In libtiff, in tif_next.c, a potential out-of-bound write in NeXTDecode()
triggered by the test case for CVE-2015-1547 (maptools bugzilla #2508).

In libtiff, in tif_getimage.c, out-of-bound reads in the TIFFRGBAImage
interface in case of unsupported values of SamplesPerPixel/ExtraSamples
for LogLUV / CIELab (CVE-2015-8665, CVE-2015-8683).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15519
• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2508
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/24/4
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/26/1
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1547
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8665
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8683

SRPMS

5/core

• libtiff-4.0.6-1.2.mga5