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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.61589
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1632-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'tiff' package(s) announced via the DSA-1632-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'tiff' package(s) announced via the DSA-1632-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Drew Yao discovered that libTIFF, a library for handling the Tagged Image File Format, is vulnerable to a programming error allowing malformed tiff files to lead to a crash or execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.8.2-7+etch1.

For the testing distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.8.2-10+lenny1.

The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your tiff package.

Affected Software/OS:
'tiff' package(s) on Debian 4.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
6.8

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-2327
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Nov/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Nov/msg00002.html
BugTraq ID: 30832
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30832
Bugtraq: 20080905 rPSA-2008-0268-1 libtiff (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496033/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20081031 VMSA-2008-0017 Updated ESX packages for libxml2, ucd-snmp, libtiff (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497962/100/0/threaded
Cert/CC Advisory: TA08-260A
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html
Debian Security Information: DSA-1632 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1632
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00102.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00121.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-07.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:184
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0017.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11489
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5514
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0847.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0848.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0863.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020750
http://secunia.com/advisories/31610
http://secunia.com/advisories/31623
http://secunia.com/advisories/31668
http://secunia.com/advisories/31670
http://secunia.com/advisories/31698
http://secunia.com/advisories/31838
http://secunia.com/advisories/31882
http://secunia.com/advisories/31982
http://secunia.com/advisories/32706
http://secunia.com/advisories/32756
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-265030-1
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2008:018 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-639-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2438
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2584
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2776
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2971
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3107
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3232
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2143
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