Security Information / 2011 / Security Information -- DSA-2210-1 tiff

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2210-1 tiff -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

03 Apr 2011

Affected Packages:

tiff

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 619614.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-0191, CVE-2011-0192, CVE-2011-1167.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the TIFF manipulation and conversion library:

• CVE-2011-0191

  A buffer overflow allows to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via a crafted TIFF image with JPEG encoding. This issue affects the Debian 5.0 Lenny package only.

• CVE-2011-0192

  A buffer overflow allows to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via a crafted TIFF Internet Fax image file that has been compressed using CCITT Group 4 encoding.

• CVE-2011-1167

  Heap-based buffer overflow in the thunder (aka ThunderScan) decoder allows to execute arbitrary code via a TIFF file that has an unexpected BitsPerSample value.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 3.8.2-11.4.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.9.4-5+squeeze1.

For the testing distribution, the first two problems have been fixed in version 3.9.4-8, the last problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 3.9.4-9.

We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.