Debian: DSA 755-1 Critical: libtiff Buffer Overflow Remote Execution
debian
July 13, 2005
Frank Warmerdam discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in libtiff, the Tag Image File Format library for processing TIFF graphics files that can lead to the executionof arbitrary...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.7.2-3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.7.2-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your libtiff packages.
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
Size/MD5 checksum: 623 fdb202eb01852d3aab26758f5f9a50ce
Size/MD5 checksum: 37270 3e154325390b0446bee083a7470adaac
Size/MD5 checksum: 693641 3b7199ba793dec6ca88f38bb0c8cc4d8
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 141498 f0d7...
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