Multiple vulnerabilities allow attackers to cause a denial of
service.
CVE-2006-2025
An integer overflows allows attackers to cause a denial of service
and possibly execute arbitrary code.
CVE-2006-2026
A double-free vulnerability allows attackers to cause a denial of
service and possibly execute arbitrary code.
For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed
in version 3.5.5-7woody1.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 3.7.2-3sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your libtiff packages.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install...
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