RHSA-2026:54640 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for compat-libtiff3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The libtiff3 package provides libtiff 3, an older version of libtiff library for manipulating TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image format files. This version should be used only if you are unable to use the current version of libtiff.

Security Fix(es):

• libtiff: libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow via crafted PixarLog-compressed TIFF image (CVE-2026-12912)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle Long Life 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2492871 - CVE-2026-12912 libtiff: libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow via crafted PixarLog-compressed TIFF image

CVEs

• CVE-2026-12912

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important