| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'tiff' package(s) announced via the DLA-693-1 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
The libtiff library and associated tools provided in libtiff-tools are vulnerable to many security problems.
This update drops many tools which are no longer supported upstream and which are affected by multiple memory corruption issues:
bmp2tiff (CVE-2016-3619, CVE-2016-3620, CVE-2016-3621, CVE-2016-5319, CVE-2015-8668)
gif2tiff (CVE-2016-3186, CVE-2016-5102)
ras2tiff
sgi2tiff
sgisv
ycbcr
rgb2ycbcr (CVE-2016-3623, CVE-2016-3624)
thumbnail (CVE-2016-3631, CVE-2016-3632, CVE-2016-3633, CVE-2016-3634, CVE-2016-8331)
This update also fixes the following issues:
CVE-2014-8128 / CVE-2015-7554, CVE-2016-5318 Multiple buffer overflows triggered through TIFFGetField() on unknown tags. Lacking an upstream fix, the list of known tags has been extended to cover all those that are in use by the TIFF tools.
CVE-2016-5652
Heap based buffer overflow in tiff2pdf.
CVE-2016-6223
Information leak in libtiff/tif_read.c. Fix out-of-bounds read on memory-mapped files in TIFFReadRawStrip1() and TIFFReadRawTile1() when stripoffset is beyond tmsize_t max value (reported by Mathias Svensson).
For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.2-6+deb7u7.
We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.
Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: [link moved to references]
Affected Software/OS:
'tiff' package(s) on Debian 7.
Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).
CVSS Score:
7.5
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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