tiff 3.8.2-6 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

tiff (3.8.2-6) unstable; urgency=high

  * Add watch file
  * Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered several problems
    in the TIFF library.  The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
    identifies the following issues:
     - CVE-2006-3459: a stack buffer overflow via TIFFFetchShortPair() in
       tif_dirread.c
     - CVE-2006-3460: A heap overflow vulnerability was discovered in the
       jpeg decoder
     - CVE-2006-3461: A heap overflow exists in the PixarLog decoder
     - CVE-2006-3462: The NeXT RLE decoder was also vulnerable to a heap
       overflow
     - CVE-2006-3463: An infinite loop was discovered in
       EstimateStripByteCounts()
     - CVE-2006-3464: Multiple unchecked arithmetic operations were
       uncovered, including a number of the range checking operations
       deisgned to ensure the offsets specified in tiff directories are
       legitimate.
     - A number of codepaths were uncovered where assertions did not hold
       true, resulting in the client application calling abort()
     - CVE-2006-3465: A flaw was also uncovered in libtiffs custom tag
       support

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden>   Tue,  08 Aug 2006 07:42:55 +0100