A type-conversion flaw leading to a heap-based buffer overflow was found in the way libtiff reads certain tiled tiff files. An attacker could create a specially-crafted TIFF image that, when opened, could cause an application using libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. This issue does affects only version 3.x, but is fixed in upstream 4.x This bug has been split from: bug 810551
Created libtiff tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 832866]
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2012:1054 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1054.html
libtiff-3.9.6-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
libtiff-3.9.6-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.