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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2698-1 (tiff - buffer overflow)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

9.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

10 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

Multiple issues were discovered in the TIFF tools, a set of utilities for TIFF image file manipulation and conversion. CVE-2013-1960 Emmanuel Bouillon discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the tp_process_jpeg_strip function in the tiff2pdf tool. This could potentially lead to a crash or arbitrary code execution. CVE-2013-1961 Emmanuel Bouillon discovered many stack-based buffer overflows in the TIFF tools. These issues could potentially lead to a crash or arbitrary code execution.

Affected Software

Affected Software

tiff on Debian Linux

Detection Method

Detection Method

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

Solution

Solution

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.9.4-5+squeeze9. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.2-6+deb7u1. For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.2-6+nmu1. We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)