RHSA-2023:6575 — Security Advisory

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.

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.