DSA-2698-1 tiff -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2698-1 tiff -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

18 Jun 2013

Affected Packages:

tiff

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 706674, Bug 706675.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-1960, CVE-2013-1961.

More information:

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.