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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.702965
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian Security Advisory DSA 2965-1 (tiff - security update)
Summary:Murray McAllister discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the gif2tiff;command line tool. Executing gif2tiff on a malicious tiff image could;result in arbitrary code execution.
Description:Summary:
Murray McAllister discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the gif2tiff
command line tool. Executing gif2tiff on a malicious tiff image could
result in arbitrary code execution.

Affected Software/OS:
tiff on Debian Linux

Solution:
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0.2-6+deb7u3.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0.3-9.

We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.

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-2013-4243
BugTraq ID: 62082
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62082
Debian Security Information: DSA-2744 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2744
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2014:0223
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0223.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/54543
http://secunia.com/advisories/54628
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