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Debian 3.9.4-5 DSA-2698-1 Critical: TIFF Tools Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey June 18, 2013
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Multiple issues were discovered in the TIFF tools, a set of utilities for TIFF image file manipulation and conversion

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.

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.

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Package: tiff
CVE ID: CVE-2013-1960 CVE-2013-1961

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