[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: libtiff-4.4.0-8.fc38
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-8daf1023c7
2023-09-01 01:28:16.436786
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Name : libtiff
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 4.4.0
Release : 8.fc38
URL : http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/
Summary : Library of functions for manipulating TIFF format image files
Description :
The libtiff package contains a library of functions for manipulating
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image format files. TIFF is a widely
used file format for bitmapped images. TIFF files usually end in the
.tif extension and they are often quite large.
The libtiff package should be installed if you need to manipulate TIFF
format image files.
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Update Information:
- Enabled LERC compression support - Fixed **CVE-2023-0804**
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Aug 28 2023 Nikola Forr�� <nforro(a)redhat.com> - 4.4.0-8
- Enable support for LERC compression (#2234459)
* Thu Jul 20 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 4.4.0-7
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild
* Sun Feb 19 2023 Antonio Trande <sagitter(a)fedoraproject.org> - 4.4.0-6
- Fix CVE-2023-0804 (#2170195)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #2170195 - CVE-2023-0804 libtiff: out-of-bounds write in
extractContigSamplesShifted24bits() in tools/tiffcrop.c [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170195
[ 2 ] Bug #2234459 - Missing LERC compression support in libtiff
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234459
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