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libtiff: denial of service

Package(s):libtiff CVE #(s):CVE-2010-2443
Created:August 30, 2010 Updated:January 19, 2011
Description: From the MeeGo advisory:

The OJPEGReadBufferFill function in tif_ojpeg.c in LibTIFF before 3.9.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an OJPEG image with undefined strip offsets, related to the TIFFVGetField function. CVSS v2 Base: 5.0 (MEDIUM) Access Vector: Network exploitable

Alerts:
MeeGo MeeGo-SA-10:27 2010-09-03
MeeGo MeeGo-SA-10:20 2010-08-03
Gentoo 201209-02 2012-09-23
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