Synopsis:    Important: libtiff security update
Issue Date:  2012-04-10
CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-1173


The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating Tagged
Image File Format (TIFF) files.

Two integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were
found in the way libtiff attempted to allocate space for a tile in a TIFF
image file. An attacker could use these flaws 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-2012-1173)

All libtiff users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a
backported patch to resolve these issues. All running applications linked
against libtiff must be restarted for this update to take effect.

SL5:
  i386
     libtiff-3.8.2-14.el5_8.i386.rpm
     libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-14.el5_8.i386.rpm
     libtiff-devel-3.8.2-14.el5_8.i386.rpm
  x86_64
     libtiff-3.8.2-14.el5_8.i386.rpm
     libtiff-3.8.2-14.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
     libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-14.el5_8.i386.rpm
     libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-14.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
     libtiff-devel-3.8.2-14.el5_8.i386.rpm
     libtiff-devel-3.8.2-14.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
SL6:
  i386
     libtiff-3.9.4-5.el6_2.i686.rpm
     libtiff-debuginfo-3.9.4-5.el6_2.i686.rpm
     libtiff-devel-3.9.4-5.el6_2.i686.rpm
     libtiff-static-3.9.4-5.el6_2.i686.rpm
  x86_64
     libtiff-3.9.4-5.el6_2.i686.rpm
     libtiff-3.9.4-5.el6_2.x86_64.rpm
     libtiff-debuginfo-3.9.4-5.el6_2.i686.rpm
     libtiff-debuginfo-3.9.4-5.el6_2.x86_64.rpm
     libtiff-devel-3.9.4-5.el6_2.i686.rpm
     libtiff-devel-3.9.4-5.el6_2.x86_64.rpm
     libtiff-static-3.9.4-5.el6_2.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team