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Debian: CVE-2017-7596: tiff, tiff3 -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-7596: tiff, tiff3 -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/09/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/24/2017
Modified
02/24/2020

Description

LibTIFF 4.0.7 has an "outside the range of representable values of type float" undefined behavior issue, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-tiff
  • debian-upgrade-tiff3

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