Moderate: libtiff security update

Topic

An update for libtiff is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files.

Security Fix(es):

• libtiff: null pointer dereference in LZWDecode() in libtiff/tif_lzw.c (CVE-2023-2731)
• libtiff: tiffcrop: null pointer dereference in TIFFClose() (CVE-2023-3316)
• libtiff: memory leak in tiffcrop.c (CVE-2023-3576)
• libtiff: heap-based use after free via a crafted TIFF image in loadImage() in tiffcrop.c (CVE-2023-26965)
• libtiff: Buffer Overflow in uv_encode() (CVE-2023-26966)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

All running applications linked against libtiff must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 9 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2207635 - CVE-2023-2731 libtiff: null pointer deference in LZWDecode() in libtiff/tif_lzw.c
• BZ - 2215206 - CVE-2023-26965 libtiff: heap-based use after free via a crafted TIFF image in loadImage() in tiffcrop.c
• BZ - 2216080 - CVE-2023-3316 libtiff: tiffcrop: null pointer dereference in TIFFClose()
• BZ - 2218749 - CVE-2023-26966 libtiff: Buffer Overflow in uv_encode()
• BZ - 2219340 - CVE-2023-3576 libtiff: memory leak in tiffcrop.c

CVEs

• CVE-2023-2731
• CVE-2023-3316
• CVE-2023-3576
• CVE-2023-26965
• CVE-2023-26966

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.3_release_notes/index