Security Information / 2012 / Security Information -- DSA-2589-1 tiff

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2589-1 tiff -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

16 Dec 2012

Affected Packages:

tiff

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 694693.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-5581.

More information:

The tiff library for handling TIFF image files contained a stack-based buffer overflow, potentially allowing attackers who can submit such files to a vulnerable system to execute arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.9.4-5+squeeze8.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.2-1 of the tiff package, and version 3.9.6-10 of the tiff3 package.

We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.