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USN-1120-1: tiff vulnerability

21 April 2011

The TIFF library could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

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Releases

Packages

  • tiff - TIFF manipulation and conversion tools

Details

It was discovered that the TIFF library incorrectly handled certain JPEG
data. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially
crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with
user privileges, or crash the application, leading to a denial of service.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make
all the necessary changes.

References