Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1102-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Martin Barbella discovered that the thunder (aka ThunderScan) decoder in the TIFF library incorrectly handled an unexpected BitsPerSample value. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges, or crash the application, leading to a denial of service.
Affected
tiff vulnerability on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ,
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ,
Ubuntu 9.10 ,
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ,
Ubuntu 10.10
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-1167 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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