Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-734
Advisory Release Date: 2016-08-17 13:30 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2016-08-17 13:30 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
Multiple flaws have been discovered in libtiff. A remote attacker could exploit these flaws to cause a crash or memory corruption and, possibly, execute arbitrary code by tricking an application linked against libtiff into processing specially crafted files. (CVE-2014-9655, CVE-2015-1547, CVE-2015-8784, CVE-2015-8683, CVE-2015-8665, CVE-2015-8781, CVE-2015-8782, CVE-2015-8783, CVE-2016-3990, CVE-2016-5320)
Affected Packages:
compat-libtiff3
Issue Correction:
Run yum update compat-libtiff3 to update your system.
i686:
compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-18.14.amzn1.i686
compat-libtiff3-debuginfo-3.9.4-18.14.amzn1.i686
src:
compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-18.14.amzn1.src
x86_64:
compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-18.14.amzn1.x86_64
compat-libtiff3-debuginfo-3.9.4-18.14.amzn1.x86_64