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Debian 3.1 DSA 1137-1 Critical: TIFF Package Heap Overflows

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Calendar Grey August 2, 2006
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This notice covers several concerns within jpeg libraries on Ubuntu, emphasizing risks and update guidelines.
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Summary


Several stack-buffer overflows have been discovered.

CVE-2006-3460

A heap overflow vulnerability in the JPEG decoder may overrun a
buffer with more data than expected.

CVE-2006-3461

A heap overflow vulnerability in the PixarLog decoder may allow an
attacker to execute arbitrary code.

CVE-2006-3462

A heap overflow vulnerability has been discovered in the NeXT RLE
decoder.

CVE-2006-3463

An loop was discovered where a 16bit unsigned short was used to
iterate over a 32bit unsigned value so that the loop would never
terminate and continue forever.

CVE-2006-3464

Multiple unchecked arithmetic operations were uncovered, including
a number of the range checking operations designed to ensure the
offsets specified in TIFF directories are legitimate.

CVE-2006-3465

A flaw was also uncovered in libtiffs custom tag support which may
result in abnormal behaviour, crashes, or potentially arbitrary
code execution.

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