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Gentoo: GLSA-200501-07 Critical: JPEG Buffer Overflow Remote Access

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Calendar Grey January 5, 2005
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The Gentoo advisory warns of vulnerabilities in the TIFF library, pointing to potential integer overflow issues that may allow arbitrary code execution on affected systems
An integer overflow has been found in the TIFF library image decoding routines and the tiffdump utility, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200501-06 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: tiff: New overflows in image decoding Date: January 05, 2005 Bugs: #75213 ID: 200501-06

Synopsis ======= An integer overflow has been found in the TIFF library image decoding routines and the tiffdump utility, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution.
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 applications, to interpret TIFF images.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/tiff < 3.7.1-r1 >= 3.7.1-r1
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