Summary
The remote host is missing an update to tiff
announced via advisory DSA 2256-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202256-1
Insight
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.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.9.4-5+squeeze2.
For the testing distribution (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.9.5-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-5022 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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