Dmitry V. Levin discovered a buffer overflow in the “tiffdump” utility. If an attacker tricked a user into processing a malicious TIFF image with tiffdump, they could cause a buffer overflow which at least causes the program to crash. However, it is not entirely clear whether this can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user opening the image.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
7 January 2005
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Dmitry V. Levin discovered a buffer overflow in the “tiffdump” utility. If an attacker tricked a user into processing a malicious TIFF image with tiffdump, they could cause a buffer overflow which at least causes the program to crash. However, it is not entirely clear whether this can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user opening the image.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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