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LibTIFF Unspecified tiffdump Integer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA13728
Release Date: 2005-01-06
Popularity: 13,021 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:LibTIFF 3.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2004-1183


Description:
Dmitry V. Levin has reported a vulnerability in LibTIFF, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified integer overflow in the tiffdump utility.

Successful exploitation may potentially allow execution of arbitrary code, but requires that a user is tricked into checking a malicious TIFF image with the tiffdump utility.

Solution:
Secunia is currently not aware of an official updated version, which addresses the vulnerability.

Updated packages have been issued by some Linux vendors.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Dmitry V. Levin


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