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Ubuntu 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04: 801-1 Critical TIFF Code Execution

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Calendar Grey July 13, 2009
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The latest Ubuntu security advisory describes a vulnerability in GIF handling that could lead to unauthorized code execution via crafted image files.
Tielei Wang and Tom Lane discovered that the TIFF library did not correctly handle certain malformed TIFF images

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security advisory code execution Ubuntu image handling malicious image

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