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Synthesis of the vulnerability 
An attacker can generate a buffer overflow via writeBufferToSeparateStrips of LibTIFF, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to run code.
 Impacted software: Debian, LibTIFF, Ubuntu.
Severity of this computer vulnerability: 2/4.
Creation date: 14/11/2016.
Références of this announce: CVE-2016-9532, DLA-716-1, DSA-3762-1, USN-3212-1, USN-3212-2, VIGILANCE-VUL-21100.
Description of the vulnerability 
An attacker can generate a buffer overflow via writeBufferToSeparateStrips of LibTIFF, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to run code.
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This threat bulletin impacts software or systems such as Debian, LibTIFF, Ubuntu.
Our Vigil@nce team determined that the severity of this computer threat bulletin is medium.
The trust level is of type confirmed by the editor, with an origin of document.
An attacker with a expert ability can exploit this computer threat.
Solutions for this threat 
LibTIFF: patch for writeBufferToSeparateStrips.
A patch is available in the last CVS version:
export CVSROOT=:pserver:cvsanon@cvs.maptools.org:/cvs/maptools/cvsroot
cvs login
cvs checkout libtiff
Debian 7: new tiff packages.
New packages are available:
Debian 7: tiff 4.0.2-6+deb7u8
Debian 8: new tiff packages (16/01/2017).
New packages are available:
Debian 8: tiff 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u2
Ubuntu: new LibTIFF packages.
New packages are available:
Ubuntu 16.10: LibTIFF-tools 4.0.6-2ubuntu0.2, libtiff5 4.0.6-2ubuntu0.2
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: LibTIFF-tools 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.2, libtiff5 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.2
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: LibTIFF-tools 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.7, libtiff5 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.7
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