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Apple Safari security update for CVE-2008-2327

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Apple Safari security update for CVE-2008-2327

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/27/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/05/2012
Modified
09/02/2015

Description

Multiple buffer underflows in the (1) LZWDecode, (2) LZWDecodeCompat, and (3) LZWDecodeVector functions in tif_lzw.c in the LZW decoder in LibTIFF 3.8.2 and earlier allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TIFF file, related to improper handling of the CODE_CLEAR code.

Solution(s)

  • apple-safari-upgrade-3_2
  • apple-safari-windows-uninstall

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