Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2744-1 tiff -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
27 Aug 2013
Affected Packages:
tiff
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-4231, CVE-2013-4232, CVE-2013-4244.
More information:

Pedro Ribeiro and Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala discovered multiple vulnerabilities in various tools shipped by the tiff library. Processing a malformed file may lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.9.4-5+squeeze10.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.2-6+deb7u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.3-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.