Pedro Ribeiro and Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala discovered multiple vulnerabilities in various tools shipped by the tiff library. Processing a malformed file may lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.9.4-5+squeeze10. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.2-6+deb7u2. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.3-3. 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-2744.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25