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Gentoo: GLSA 200505-07 Normal: libTIFF Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2005
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The Gentoo advisory GLSA 202203-04 alerts users about potential vulnerabilities in libPNG that may result in arbitrary code execution due to memory corruption.
The libTIFF library is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200505-07 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: libTIFF: Buffer overflow Date: May 10, 2005 Bugs: #91584 ID: 200505-07

Synopsis ======= The libTIFF library is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= libTIFF provides support for reading and manipulating TIFF (Tag Image File Format) images.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/tiff < 3.7.2 >= 3.7.2
========== Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a stack based buffer overflow in the libTIFF library when reading a TIFF image with ...

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