Advisories » MGASA-2018-0426

Updated libtiff packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 30 Oct 2018
Modification date: 30 Oct 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2018-17100 , CVE-2018-17101

Description

The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities:

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 (CVE-2018-17100).

An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There are two out-of-bounds
writes in cpTags in tools/tiff2bw.c and tools/pal2rgb.c, which can cause
a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other
impact via a crafted image file (CVE-2018-17101).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23753
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2018-10/msg00149.html
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2018-10/msg00150.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17100
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17101

SRPMS

6/core

• libtiff-4.0.9-1.7.mga6