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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2147-1 gdal -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

19 Mar 2020

Affected Packages:

gdal

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-17546.

More information:

tif_getimage.c in LibTIFF, as used in GDAL has an integer overflow that potentially causes a heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted RGBA image, related to a "Negative-size-param" condition.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 1.10.1+dfsg-8+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your gdal packages.

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