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Debian: DSA 626-1 Critical Buffer Overflow In Libtiff DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey January 6, 2005
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Security alert for Debian users: a serious libtiff vulnerability can lead to buffer overflow, risking system exploitation. Update immediately to stay safe
Dmitry V

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.6.1-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your libtiff package.


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 30abd553c21fae8aa009f64c7d5c5fb7
Size/MD5 checksum: 37066 4b47449e5c15f5981121d2bb29212fc8
Size/MD5 checksum: 693641 3b7199ba793dec6ca88f38bb0c8cc4d8

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 141472 2e1246f3ef1525394c8c27b4cf5809f8
...

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------Package: tiff
CVE ID: CAN-2004-1183

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