DSA-626-1 tiff -- unsanitised input

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2004-1183  

Dmitry V. Levin discovered a buffer overflow in libtiff, the Tag Image File Format library for processing TIFF graphics files. Upon reading a TIFF file it is possible to crash the application, and maybe also to execute arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.5-6.woody5. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.6.1-5. We recommend that you upgrade your libtiff package.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-626-1 tiff -- unsanitised input

Date Reported:
06 Jan 2005
Affected Packages:
tiff
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-1183.
More information:

Dmitry V. Levin discovered a buffer overflow in libtiff, the Tag Image File Format library for processing TIFF graphics files. Upon reading a TIFF file it is possible to crash the application, and maybe also to execute arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.5-6.woody5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.6.1-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your libtiff package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/tiff_3.5.5-6.woody5.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/tiff_3.5.5-6.woody5.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/tiff_3.5.5.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.5.5-6.woody5_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g_3.5.5-6.woody5_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g-dev_3.5.5-6.woody5_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.5.5-6.woody5_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g_3.5.5-6.woody5_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g-dev_3.5.5-6.woody5_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.5.5-6.woody5_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g_3.5.5-6.woody5_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g-dev_3.5.5-6.woody5_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.5.5-6.woody5_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g_3.5.5-6.woody5_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g-dev_3.5.5-6.woody5_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.5.5-6.woody5_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g_3.5.5-6.woody5_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g-dev_3.5.5-6.woody5_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.5.5-6.woody5_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g_3.5.5-6.woody5_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g-dev_3.5.5-6.woody5_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.5.5-6.woody5_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g_3.5.5-6.woody5_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g-dev_3.5.5-6.woody5_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.5.5-6.woody5_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g_3.5.5-6.woody5_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g-dev_3.5.5-6.woody5_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.5.5-6.woody5_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g_3.5.5-6.woody5_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g-dev_3.5.5-6.woody5_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.5.5-6.woody5_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g_3.5.5-6.woody5_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g-dev_3.5.5-6.woody5_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.5.5-6.woody5_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g_3.5.5-6.woody5_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff3g-dev_3.5.5-6.woody5_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.