DSA-4670-1 tiff -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4670-1 tiff -- security update

Date Reported:

29 Apr 2020

Affected Packages:

tiff

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 902718, Bug 908778, Bug 909038, Bug 913675, Bug 934780.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-12900, CVE-2018-17000, CVE-2018-17100, CVE-2018-19210, CVE-2019-7663, CVE-2019-14973, CVE-2019-17546.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been found in the TIFF library, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if malformed image files are processed.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.8-2+deb9u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.

For the detailed security status of tiff please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/tiff