ALAS-2016-734

References: CVE-2014-9655  CVE-2015-1547  CVE-2015-8665  CVE-2015-8683  CVE-2015-8781  CVE-2015-8782  CVE-2015-8783  CVE-2015-8784  CVE-2016-3990  CVE-2016-5320 

Issue Overview:

Multiple flaws have been discovered in libtiff. A remote attacker could exploit these flaws to cause a crash or memory corruption and, possibly, execute arbitrary code by tricking an application linked against libtiff into processing specially crafted files. (CVE-2014-9655, CVE-2015-1547, CVE-2015-8784, CVE-2015-8683, CVE-2015-8665, CVE-2015-8781, CVE-2015-8782, CVE-2015-8783, CVE-2016-3990, CVE-2016-5320)

Issue Correction:
Run yum update compat-libtiff3 to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:
    compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-18.14.amzn1.i686
    compat-libtiff3-debuginfo-3.9.4-18.14.amzn1.i686

src:
    compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-18.14.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-18.14.amzn1.x86_64
    compat-libtiff3-debuginfo-3.9.4-18.14.amzn1.x86_64