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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2210-1 (tiff)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to tiff announced via advisory DSA 2210-1.
Insight
Insight
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the TIFF manipulation and conversion library: CVE-2011-0191 A buffer overflow allows to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via a crafted TIFF image with JPEG encoding. This issue affects the Debian 5.0 Lenny package only. CVE-2011-0192 A buffer overflow allows to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via a crafted TIFF Internet Fax image file that has been compressed using CCITT Group 4 encoding. CVE-2011-1167 Heap-based buffer overflow in the thunder (aka ThunderScan) decoder allows to execute arbitrary code via a TIFF file that has an unexpected BitsPerSample value. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 3.8.2-11.4. For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.9.4-5+squeeze1. For the testing distribution, the first two problems have been fixed in version 3.9.4-8, the last problem will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 3.9.4-9.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.