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Debian: CVE-2016-5102: tiff -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-5102: tiff -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/02/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/31/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

Buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in gif2tiff.c in the gif2tiff tool in LibTIFF 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted gif file.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-tiff

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