Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Package: tiff
> Severity: important
> Tags: security
>
> Hi,
> 3.8.0 seems to have introduced two regressions that have DoS potential:
>
> | The TIFFFetchShortPair function in tif_dirread.c in libtiff 3.8.0 
> | allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application
> | crash) via a crafted TIFF image that triggers a NULL pointer
> | dereference, possibly due to changes in type declarations and/or
> | the TIFFVSetField function.
>
> http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1029
> http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034
>  
> oldstable and stable do not seem to be affected, can you please verify/
> confirm?
>
> This is CVE-2006-0405, please mention it in the changelog when fixing it.

I'll check into this right away.  Thanks.

-- 
Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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