tiff -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Description:

A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports:

Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a stack based buffer overflow in the libTIFF library when reading a TIFF image with a malformed BitsPerSample tag.

Successful exploitation would require the victim to open a specially crafted TIFF image, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

References:

• CVE name CVE-2005-1544
• URL: <http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=843>
• URL: <http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200505-07.xml>
• URL: <http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/v3.7.3.html>

Affects:

• tiff <3.7.3
• linux-tiff <3.6.1_3
• pdflib <6.0.1_2
• pdflib-perl <6.0.1_2
• gdal <1.2.1_2
• ivtools <1.2.3
• paraview <2.4.3
• fractorama <1.6.7_1
• iv >0
• ja-iv >0
• ja-libimg >0

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