Medium: libtiff

Issue Overview:

A heap-based buffer overflow and a use-after-free flaw 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-2013-1960, CVE-2013-4232)

Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in the gif2tiff tool. An attacker could use these flaws to create a specially crafted GIF file that could cause gif2tiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-4231, CVE-2013-4243, CVE-2013-4244)

A flaw was found in the way libtiff handled OJPEG-encoded TIFF images. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted TIFF file that would cause an application using libtiff to crash. (CVE-2010-2596)

Multiple buffer overflow flaws 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. (CVE-2013-1961)

Affected Packages:

libtiff

Issue Correction:
Run yum update libtiff to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    libtiff-3.9.4-10.12.amzn1.i686  
    libtiff-static-3.9.4-10.12.amzn1.i686  
    libtiff-debuginfo-3.9.4-10.12.amzn1.i686  
    libtiff-devel-3.9.4-10.12.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    libtiff-3.9.4-10.12.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    libtiff-debuginfo-3.9.4-10.12.amzn1.x86_64  
    libtiff-devel-3.9.4-10.12.amzn1.x86_64  
    libtiff-3.9.4-10.12.amzn1.x86_64  
    libtiff-static-3.9.4-10.12.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2010-2596, CVE-2013-1960, CVE-2013-1961, CVE-2013-4231, CVE-2013-4232, CVE-2013-4243, CVE-2013-4244

Mitre: CVE-2010-2596, CVE-2013-1960, CVE-2013-1961, CVE-2013-4231, CVE-2013-4232, CVE-2013-4243, CVE-2013-4244