Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-106
Advisory Release Date: 2012-07-06 16:18 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 16:44 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
libtiff did not properly convert between signed and unsigned integer values, leading to a buffer overflow. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially-crafted TIFF file that, when opened, would cause an application linked against libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-2088)
Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in the tiff2pdf tool. An attacker could use these flaws to create a specially-crafted TIFF file that would cause tiff2pdf to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-2113)
Affected Packages:
libtiff
Issue Correction:
Run yum update libtiff to update your system.
i686:
libtiff-devel-3.9.4-6.10.amzn1.i686
libtiff-3.9.4-6.10.amzn1.i686
libtiff-debuginfo-3.9.4-6.10.amzn1.i686
libtiff-static-3.9.4-6.10.amzn1.i686
src:
libtiff-3.9.4-6.10.amzn1.src
x86_64:
libtiff-3.9.4-6.10.amzn1.x86_64
libtiff-debuginfo-3.9.4-6.10.amzn1.x86_64
libtiff-static-3.9.4-6.10.amzn1.x86_64
libtiff-devel-3.9.4-6.10.amzn1.x86_64