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USN-797-1: tiff vulnerability

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USN-797-1: tiff vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
07/01/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Buffer underflow in the LZWDecodeCompat function in libtiff 3.8.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted TIFF image, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2327.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff4

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