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SSA-2006-230-01 libtiff

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
SSA-2006-230-01 libtiff

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

New libtiff packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1,
10.2, and -current to fix security issues. These issues could be used
to crash programs linked to libtiff or possibly to execute code as the
program's user.

Thanks to Tavis Ormandy and the Google Security Team.

More details about this issue may be found in the Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3459
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3460
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3461
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3462
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3463
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3464
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3465

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Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2006 Michel Arboi

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