Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-802
Advisory Release Date: 2017-03-06 14:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-03-06 14:00 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-2016-9533, CVE-2016-9534, CVE-2016-9535)
Multiple flaws have been discovered in various libtiff tools (tiff2pdf, tiffcrop, tiffcp, bmp2tiff). By tricking a user into processing a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit these flaws to cause a crash or memory corruption and, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the libtiff tool. (CVE-2015-8870, CVE-2016-5652, CVE-2016-9540, CVE-2016-9537, CVE-2016-9536)
Affected Packages:
libtiff, compat-libtiff3
Issue Correction:
Run yum update libtiff to update your system.
Run yum update compat-libtiff3 to update your system.
i686:
libtiff-devel-4.0.3-27.29.amzn1.i686
libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-27.29.amzn1.i686
libtiff-static-4.0.3-27.29.amzn1.i686
libtiff-4.0.3-27.29.amzn1.i686
compat-libtiff3-debuginfo-3.9.4-21.15.amzn1.i686
compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-21.15.amzn1.i686
src:
libtiff-4.0.3-27.29.amzn1.src
compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-21.15.amzn1.src
x86_64:
libtiff-static-4.0.3-27.29.amzn1.x86_64
libtiff-4.0.3-27.29.amzn1.x86_64
libtiff-devel-4.0.3-27.29.amzn1.x86_64
libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-27.29.amzn1.x86_64
compat-libtiff3-debuginfo-3.9.4-21.15.amzn1.x86_64
compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-21.15.amzn1.x86_64