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libtiff: code execution

Package(s):libtiff CVE #(s):CVE-2010-3087
Created:September 22, 2010 Updated:March 15, 2011
Description:

From the openSUSE advisory:

Specially crafted tiff files could cause a memory corruption in libtiff. Attackers could potentially exploit that to execute arbitrary code in applications that use libtiff for processing tiff files (CVE-2010-3087).

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1085-2 2011-03-15
Ubuntu USN-1085-1 2011-03-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2010:0619-1 2010-09-16
Mandriva MDVSA-2010:190 2010-09-30
Gentoo 201209-02 2012-09-23
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