Debian 3.0: DSA 618-1 Critical: libtiff Remote Code Execution
debian
December 24, 2004
"infamous41md" discovered a problem in libtiff, the Tag Image File Format library for processing TIFF graphics files
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.6.1-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your libtiff packages immediately.
Upgrade Instructions
--------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
-------------------------------- Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 637 340b528a9a2735be4445813d3b31bebd
Size/MD5 checksum: 36863 0fcfc242c2912f11ddfa61e5acf6a3b5
Size/MD5 checksum: 693641 3b7199ba793dec6ca88f38bb0c8cc4d8
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 141430 e2a4e5353b5190ba2f271b9e430f...
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------Package: tiff
CVE ID: CAN-2004-1308
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