This ERRATA for SL 4.x i386/x86_64 is now available from: ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/i386/errata/SL/RPMS ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/x86_64/errata/SL/RPMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Synopsis: Important: libtiff security and bug fix update Issue date: 2011-03-29 CVE Names: CVE-2011-1167 A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libtiff processed certain TIFF files encoded with a 4-bit run-length encoding scheme from ThunderScan. 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-2011-1167) This update also fixes the following bug: * A prior libtiff update introduced a regression that prevented certain TIFF Internet Fax image files, compressed with the CCITT Group 4 compression algorithm, from being read. (BZ#688825) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SL 4.x SRPMS: libtiff-3.6.1-18.el4.src.rpm i386: libtiff-3.6.1-18.el4.i386.rpm libtiff-devel-3.6.1-18.el4.i386.rpm x86_64: libtiff-3.6.1-18.el4.i386.rpm libtiff-3.6.1-18.el4.x86_64.rpm libtiff-devel-3.6.1-18.el4.x86_64.rpm -Connie Sieh -Troy Dawson