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Gentoo: GLSA 200607-03 Normal: LibTIFF Multiple Buffer Overflows

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Calendar Grey July 9, 2006
Scroller Gentoo
Gentoo GLSA 202107-05 concerns libPNG vulnerabilities that could result in unauthorized access. Update is strongly advised.
libTIFF contains buffer overflows that could result in arbitrary code execution.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200607-03 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: libTIFF: Multiple buffer overflows Date: July 09, 2006 Bugs: #135881 ID: 200607-03

Synopsis ======= libTIFF contains buffer overflows that could result in arbitrary code execution.
Background ========= libTIFF provides support for reading and manipulating TIFF images.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/tiff < 3.8.2-r1 >= 3.8.2-r1
========== A buffer overflow has been found in the t2p_write_pdf_string function in tiff2pdf, which can been triggered with a TIFF file containing a DocumentName tag with UTF-8 characters. An additional buffer o...

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