RHSA-2021:4241 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: libtiff security and bug fix update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · November 10, 2021
Updated · June 25, 2026
Topic
An update for libtiff is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
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):
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libtiff: Integer overflow in tif_getimage.c (CVE-2020-35523)
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libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow in TIFF2PDF tool (CVE-2020-35524)
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libtiff: Memory allocation failure in tiff2rgba (CVE-2020-35521)
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libtiff: Memory allocation failure in tiff2rgba (CVE-2020-35522)
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 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.