Package : tiff Vulnerability : several Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE IDs : CAN-2006-2024 CAN-2006-2025 CAN-2006-2026 BugTraq IDs : 17730 17732 17733
Tavis Ormandy discovered several vulnerabilities in the TIFF library that can lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2006-2024
Multiple vulnerabilities allow attackers to cause a denial of service.
CVE-2006-2025
An integer overflows allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code.
CVE-2006-2026
A double-free vulnerability allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code.
For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 3.5.5-7woody1.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 3.7.2-3sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your libtiff packages.
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 - --------------------------------