Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : tiff vulnerability (USN-130-1)

Tavis Ormandy discovered a buffer overflow in the TIFF library. A malicious image with an invalid 'bits per sample' number could be constructed which, when decoded, would have resulted in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process using the library. Since this library is used ...

libtiff TIFF graphics library buffer overflow

Buffer overflow on invalid bits per sample value...