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Ubuntu 6.06-8.04 LTS USN-639-1 Critical: TIFF Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey September 2, 2008
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Investigate a vulnerability in Ubuntu that allows remote code execution and service denial. Learn effective strategies to safeguard your system against such threats!
Drew Yao discovered that the TIFF library did not correctly validate LZW compressed TIFF images

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security advisory denial of service remote code execution ubuntu image processing tiff

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-639-1 September 02, 2008

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security advisory denial of service remote code execution ubuntu image processing tiff

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