Package : tiff
Vulnerability : buffer underflow
Problem type : local (remote)
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-2327
Drew Yao discovered that libTIFF, a library for handling the Tagged Image
File Format, is vulnerable to a programming error allowing malformed
tiff files to lead to a crash or execution of arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.8.2-7+etch1.
For the testing distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.8.2-10+lenny1.
The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your tiff package.
Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
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