Summary
The remote host is missing an update to tiff
announced via advisory DSA 2210-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202210-1
Insight
Several vulnearbilities 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.
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.
For the testing distribution, the first two problems have been fixed in version 3.9.4-8, the last problem will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 3.9.4-9.
We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-0191, CVE-2011-0192, CVE-2011-1167 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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