[SECURITY] [DSA 2698-1] tiff security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-2698-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Gilbert
June 18, 2013 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : tiff
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem type : local (remote)
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2013-1960 CVE-2013-1961
Debian Bug : 706674 706675

Multiple issues were discovered in the TIFF tools, a set of utilities for
TIFF image file manipulation and conversion.

CVE-2013-1960

Emmanuel Bouillon discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the
tp_process_jpeg_strip function in the tiff2pdf tool.  This could
potentially lead to a crash or arbitrary code execution.

CVE-2013-1961

Emmanuel Bouillon discovered many stack-based buffer overflows in
the tiff tools.  These issues could potentially lead to a crash or
arbitrary code execution.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.9.4-5+squeeze9.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.0.2-6+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.0.2-6+nmu1.

We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.

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