Summary
The remote host is missing an update to camlimages announced via advisory DSA 1912-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201912-1
Insight
It was discovered that CamlImages, an open source image processing library, suffers from several integer overflows, which may lead to a potentially exploitable heap overflow and result in arbitrary code execution. This advisory addresses issues with the reading of TIFF files. It also expands the patch for CVE-2009-2660 to cover another potential overflow in the processing of JPEG images.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.20-8+etch3.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.2.0-4+lenny3.
For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your camlimages package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-2660, CVE-2009-3296 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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