Debian DSA-2210-1 : tiff - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 53260

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Synopsis

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

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the TIFF manipulation and conversion library :

- CVE-2011-0191 A buffer overflow allows to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via a crafted TIFF image with JPEG encoding. This issue affects the Debian 5.0 Lenny package only.

- CVE-2011-0192 A buffer overflow allows to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via a crafted TIFF Internet Fax image file that has been compressed using CCITT Group 4 encoding.

- CVE-2011-1167 Heap-based buffer overflow in the thunder (aka ThunderScan) decoder allows to execute arbitrary code via a TIFF file that has an unexpected BitsPerSample value.

Solution

Upgrade the tiff packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 3.8.2-11.4.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.9.4-5+squeeze1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 53260

File Name: debian_DSA-2210.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/4/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tiff, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/3/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0191, CVE-2011-0192, CVE-2011-1167

BID: 46951, 46657, 46658

DSA: 2210

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