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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1023-1 tiff3 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

11 Jul 2017

Affected Packages:

tiff3

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 866113.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-9936.

More information:

A vulnerabilitie has been discovered in the libtiff library and the included tools, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

• CVE-2017-9936

  A crafted TIFF document can lead to a memory leak resulting in a remote denial of service attack.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 3.9.6-11+deb7u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your tiff3 packages.

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