RHSA-2021:4241 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: libtiff security and bug fix update

Loading…

Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

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):

  • libtiff: Integer overflow in tif_getimage.c (CVE-2020-35523)

  • libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow in TIFF2PDF tool (CVE-2020-35524)

  • libtiff: Memory allocation failure in tiff2rgba (CVE-2020-35521)

  • 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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2021:4241 — Red Hat Security Advisory: libtiff security and bug fix update | PulseLinux