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Alpine: libtiffxx, multiple tiff packages: security update to 4.7.2-r0

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 473840

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - A flaw was found in the libtiff library. A remote attacker could exploit a signed integer overflow
 vulnerability in the putcontig8bitYCbCr44tile function by providing a specially crafted TIFF file. This
 flaw can lead to an out-of-bounds heap write due to incorrect memory pointer calculations, potentially
 causing a denial of service (application crash) or arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2026-4775)

 - 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).
 (CVE-2026-12912)

 - An issue in libtiff 85f2ac8e0b01cb7db2bbecf4a3b891bdbef67938 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code
 via the process_command_opts() function in tools/tiffcrop.c (CVE-2026-52490)

Solution

Update the libtiffxx library and its related packages to version 4.7.2-r0 or later.

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2026-12912

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2026-36849

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2026-4775

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2026-52490

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 473840

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Published: 10/8/2026

Updated: 10/27/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.54

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-52490

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/24/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-12912, CVE-2026-36849, CVE-2026-4775, CVE-2026-52490

IAVA: 2026-A-0408, 2026-A-0670