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Debian: DSA-2589-1 Moderate: TIFF Buffer Overflow Threat and Update

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Calendar Grey December 16, 2012
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The Ubuntu security notice USN-1245-1 outlines a critical memory corruption issue in the libjpeg library, which may result in unauthorized remote code execution.
The tiff library for handling TIFF image files contained a stack-based buffer overflow, potentially allowing attackers who can submit such files to a vulnerable system to execute a...

Summary

The tiff library for handling TIFF image files contained a stack-based
buffer overflow, potentially allowing attackers who can submit such
files to a vulnerable system to execute arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.9.4-5+squeeze8.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.2-1 of the tiff
package, and version 3.9.6-10 of the tiff3 package.

We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: tiff
CVE ID: CVE-2012-5581

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