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High ALAS2023-2026-1983 1 CVE

Important: libtiff security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Jul 20, 2026 · Updated Jul 20, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-36849: Denial of Service via large SamplesPerPixel tag CVE-2026-12912: A flaw was found in libtiff. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted PixarLog-compressed TIFF image. This issue occurs when decoding Pixarlog codec images with the PIXARLOGDATAFMT_8BITABGR output format and a specific stride value, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. This could potentially result in arbitrary code execution or a denial of service (DoS).

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.27
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff-debuginfo 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.27
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff-debugsource 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.27
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff-devel 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.27
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff-static 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.27
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff-tools 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.27
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff-tools-debuginfo 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.27

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-12912.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-36849.html