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Gentoo: GLSA-200608-07 Normal: libTIFF Multiple Heap Overflows

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Calendar Grey August 5, 2006
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libPNG security flaws could lead to unauthorized code execution on Arch Linux. Update promptly to mitigate risks. Severity: Moderate.
libTIFF contains several vulnerabilities that could result in arbitrary code execution.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200608-07 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: August 04, 2006 Bugs: #142383 ID: 200608-07

Synopsis ======= libTIFF contains several vulnerabilities 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-r2 >= 3.8.2-r2
========== Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered several heap and stack buffer overflows and other flaws in libTIFF. The affected parts include the TIFFFetchShortPair(), TIFFScanLineSize()...

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