Red Hat alert RHSA-2025:17675-01 (compat-libtiff3)

An update for compat-libtiff3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8.

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.

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 Write-What-Where (CVE-2025-9900)

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.

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