The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory CLA-2004:888.
libtiff[1] is a library for handling TIFF images.
This announcement fixes several integer overflow vulnerabilities that were encountered in libtiff.
The fixed vulnerabilities are:
CVE-2004-0803: Chris Evans encountered several problems in the RLE (Run Length Encoding) decoders that could lead to an arbitrary code execution vulnerability through a specially crafted image.
CVE-2004-0804: Matthias Clasen encountered a division by zero through an integer overflow that could lead to a denial of service vulnerability which could be triggered by a specially crafted image.
CVE-2004-0886: Dmitry V. Levin encountered several integer overflows that caused malloc issues which could result in either plain a crash or memory corruption.
Solution: The apt tool can be used to perform RPM package upgrades by running 'apt-get update' followed by 'apt-get upgrade'