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Debian: CVE-2017-17942: tiff -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 28, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function PackBitsEncode in tif_packbits.c.

Solution

debian-upgrade-tiff
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