Debian DSA-2256-1 : tiff - buffer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55044

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Synopsis

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

Description

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library is vulnerable to a buffer overflow triggered by a crafted OJPEG file which allows for a crash and potentially execution of arbitrary code.

The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected by this problem.

Solution

Upgrade the tiff packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.9.4-5+squeeze2.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55044

File Name: debian_DSA-2256.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/10/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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:6.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-5022

DSA: 2256

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