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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-969-1 tiff -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

30 May 2017

Affected Packages:

tiff

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 862929.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-3658, CVE-2016-10371.

More information:

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in libtiff, a library providing support for the Tag Image File Format, which may result in denial of service (out-of-bounds read or assertion failure) via a crafted TIFF file.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.2-6+deb7u13.

We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.

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