Package : tiff Vulnerability : unsanitised input Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2004-1183
Dmitry V. Levin discovered a buffer overflow in libtiff, the Tag Image File Format library for processing TIFF graphics files. Upon reading a TIFF file it is possible to crash the application, and maybe also to execute arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.5-6.woody5.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.6.1-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your libtiff package.
Upgrade Instructions --------------------
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 3.0 alias woody --------------------------------