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Gentoo GLSA 200410-11 Normal: TIFF Buffer Overflows and Risk

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Calendar Grey October 13, 2004
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Safeguard your software against buffer overflow threats identified within the Gentoo tiff library utilized for image processing.
Multiple heap-based overflows have been found in the tiff library image decoding routines, potentially allowing to execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user viewing a mali...

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200410-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: tiff: Buffer overflows in image decoding Date: October 13, 2004 ID: 200410-11

Synopsis ======= Multiple heap-based overflows have been found in the tiff library image decoding routines, potentially allowing to execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user viewing a malicious image.
Background ========= The tiff library contains encoding and decoding routines for the Tag Image File Format. It is called by numerous programs, including GNOME and KDE, to help in displaying TIFF images. xv is a multi-format image manipulation utility that is statically linked to the tiff library.
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