USN-277-1: TIFF library vulnerabilities

4 May 2006

TIFF library vulnerabilities

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Details

Tavis Ormandy and Andrey Kiselev discovered that libtiff did not
sufficiently verify the validity of TIFF files. By tricking an user
into opening a specially crafted TIFF file with any application that
uses libtiff, an attacker could exploit this to crash the application
or even execute arbitrary code with the application's privileges.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.10
  • libtiff4 -
Ubuntu 5.04
  • libtiff4 -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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