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Debian DSA-1632-1 : tiff - buffer underflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34053

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the tiff package.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.8.2-7+etch1.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1632

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34053

File Name: debian_DSA-1632.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/27/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tiff, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 8/26/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2327

CWE: 119

DSA: 1632