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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1346-1 tiff -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

16 Apr 2018

Affected Packages:

tiff

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 891288.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-7456.

More information:

A NULL Pointer Dereference was discovered in the TIFFPrintDirectory function (tif_print.c) when using the tiffinfo tool to print crafted TIFF information. This vulnerability could be leveraged by remote attackers to cause a crash of the application.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.2-6+deb7u19.

We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.

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