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Slackware Advisory SSA:2006-230-01 libtiff

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Slackware Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

11 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update as announced via advisory SSA:2006-230-01.

Insight

Insight

New libtiff packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues. These issues could be used to crash programs linked to libtiff or possibly to execute code as the program's user. Thanks to Tavis Ormandy and the Google Security Team.

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to the new package(s).