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Debian: DSA 1054-1 Medium: TIFF Library DoS And Code Execution Issues

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2006
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OpenSUSE Security Advisory SLE 5473-1 resolves several vulnerabilities in the PNG processing library to enhance security.
Updated package.

Summary


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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