Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1632-1 tiff -- buffer underflow

Date Reported:
26 Aug 2008
Affected Packages:
tiff
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-2327.
More information:

Drew Yao discovered that libTIFF, a library for handling the Tagged Image File Format, is vulnerable to a programming error allowing malformed tiff files to lead to a crash or execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.8.2-7+etch1.

For the testing distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.8.2-10+lenny1.

The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your tiff package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/tiff_3.8.2.orig.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/tiff_3.8.2-7+etch1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/tiff_3.8.2-7+etch1.diff.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4_3.8.2-7+etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4-dev_3.8.2-7+etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiffxx0c2_3.8.2-7+etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-opengl_3.8.2-7+etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.8.2-7+etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4_3.8.2-7+etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-opengl_3.8.2-7+etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.8.2-7+etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4-dev_3.8.2-7+etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiffxx0c2_3.8.2-7+etch1_amd64.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiffxx0c2_3.8.2-7+etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-opengl_3.8.2-7+etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4_3.8.2-7+etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.8.2-7+etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4-dev_3.8.2-7+etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiffxx0c2_3.8.2-7+etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4_3.8.2-7+etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-opengl_3.8.2-7+etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.8.2-7+etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4-dev_3.8.2-7+etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4_3.8.2-7+etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.8.2-7+etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-opengl_3.8.2-7+etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiffxx0c2_3.8.2-7+etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4-dev_3.8.2-7+etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.8.2-7+etch1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-opengl_3.8.2-7+etch1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4_3.8.2-7+etch1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4-dev_3.8.2-7+etch1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiffxx0c2_3.8.2-7+etch1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiffxx0c2_3.8.2-7+etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.8.2-7+etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-opengl_3.8.2-7+etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4_3.8.2-7+etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4-dev_3.8.2-7+etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4-dev_3.8.2-7+etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4_3.8.2-7+etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-opengl_3.8.2-7+etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiffxx0c2_3.8.2-7+etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.8.2-7+etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-opengl_3.8.2-7+etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4_3.8.2-7+etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiffxx0c2_3.8.2-7+etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4-dev_3.8.2-7+etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.8.2-7+etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4-dev_3.8.2-7+etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff4_3.8.2-7+etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiffxx0c2_3.8.2-7+etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-tools_3.8.2-7+etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tiff/libtiff-opengl_3.8.2-7+etch1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.