Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades.
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=843 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200505-07.xml http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/v3.7.3.html
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/68222076-010b-11da-bc08-0001020eed82.html
Insight
The following packages are affected:
tiff
linux-tiff
pdflib
pdflib-perl
fractorama
gdal
iv
ivtools
ja-iv
ja-libimg
paraview
CVE-2005-1544
Stack-based buffer overflow in libTIFF before 1.53 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a TIFF file with a malformed BitsPerSample tag.
Severity
Classification
-
CVE CVE-2005-1544 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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