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HistoryOct 22, 2004 - 2:52 p.m.

local privilege escalation in libtiff

2004-10-2214:52:41
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0.932 High

EPSS

Percentile

98.8%

libtiff is used by image viewers and web browser to view “TIFF” images. These usually open and display those images without querying the user, making a normal system by default vulnerable to exploits of image library bugs.

Solution

There is no workaround. Update the libtiff packages.