Summary
The remote host is missing an update to tiff
announced via advisory DSA 1632-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201632-1
Insight
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.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.8.2-7+etch1.
For the testing distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.8.2-10+lenny1.
The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your tiff package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-2327 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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