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title: "CVE-2004-0803\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2004-0803

Publication date 23 December 2004

Last updated 17 July 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

Multiple vulnerabilities in the RLE (run length encoding) decoders for
libtiff 3.6.1 and earlier, related to buffer overflows and integer
overflows, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via TIFF files.

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| tiff | 7.04 feisty | Fixed 3.8.2-6 |
| 6.10 edgy | Fixed 3.8.2-6 |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Fixed 3.7.4-1ubuntu3.2 |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0803)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0803)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2004-0803)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2004-0803)

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-0803>