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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2561-1 (tiff)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Debian Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
6.8
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
11 years ago
Modified
Modified
2 years ago
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to tiff announced via advisory DSA 2561-1.
Insight
Insight
It was discovered that a buffer overflow in libtiff's parsing of files using PixarLog compression could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.9.4-5+squeeze6. For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.9.6-9 of the tiff3 source package and in version 4.0.2-4 of the tiff source package.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.