[RHSA-2008:0847-01] Important: libtiff security and bug fix update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

 

Synopsis: Important: libtiff security and bug fix update

Advisory ID: RHSA-2008:0847-01

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0847.html

Issue date: 2008-08-28

CVE Names: CVE-2008-2327

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1. Summary:

 

Updated libtiff packages that fix a security issue and a bug are now

available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

 

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red

Hat Security Response Team.

 

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

 

3. Description:

 

The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating Tagged

Image File Format (TIFF) files.

 

Multiple uses of uninitialized values were discovered in libtiff's

Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression algorithm decoder. An attacker could

create a carefully crafted LZW-encoded TIFF file that would cause an

application linked with libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary

code. (CVE-2008-2327)

 

Red Hat would like to thank Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security team for

reporting this issue.

 

Additionally, these updated packages fix the following bug:

 

* the libtiff packages included manual pages for the sgi2tiff and tiffsv

commands, which are not included in these packages. These extraneous manual

pages were removed.

 

All libtiff users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which

contain backported patches to resolve these issues.

 

4. Solution:

 

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released

errata relevant to your system have been applied.

 

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use

the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

 

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

 

458674 - CVE-2008-2327 libtiff: use of uninitialized memory in LZW decoder

460120 - [RHEL5] libtiff has unnecessary man pages.

 

6. Package List:

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.src.rpm

 

i386:

libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm

libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm

 

x86_64:

libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm

libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm

libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm

libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm

 

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.src.rpm

 

i386:

libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm

libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm

 

x86_64:

libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm

libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm

libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm

libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.src.rpm

 

i386:

libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm

libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm

libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm

 

ia64:

libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm

libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.ia64.rpm

libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm

libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.ia64.rpm

libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.ia64.rpm

 

ppc:

libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.ppc.rpm

libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.ppc64.rpm

libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.ppc.rpm

libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.ppc64.rpm

libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.ppc.rpm

libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.ppc64.rpm

 

s390x:

libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.s390.rpm

libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.s390x.rpm

libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.s390.rpm

libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.s390x.rpm

libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.s390.rpm

libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.s390x.rpm

 

x86_64:

libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm

libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm

libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm

libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm

libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm

libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm

 

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and

details on how to verify the signature are available from

https://www.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package

 

7. References:

 

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2327

http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

 

8. Contact:

 

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact

details at https://www.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

 

Copyright 2008 Red Hat, Inc.

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