Multiple issues were discovered in the TIFF tools, a set of utilities for TIFF image file manipulation and conversion. CVE-2013-1960 Emmanuel Bouillon discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the tp_process_jpeg_strip function in the tiff2pdf tool. This could potentially lead to a crash or arbitrary code execution. CVE-2013-1961 Emmanuel Bouillon discovered many stack-based buffer overflows in the TIFF tools. These issues could potentially lead to a crash or arbitrary code execution.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.9.4-5+squeeze9. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.2-6+deb7u1. For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.2-6+nmu1. We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.

libtiff is a library providing support for the Tag Image File Format (TIFF), a widely used format for storing image data.

tiff on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2698.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25