Technical Description

Redhat has released updated packages to address multiple vulnerabilities identified in kdegraphics. These flaws are due to errors in libTIFF, which could be exploited by malicious people to execute arbitrary commands or cause a denial of service. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2006-3105

Affected Products

Red Hat Desktop (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 2.1)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 2.1)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 2.1)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 3)
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 (Itanium)

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
http://rhn.redhat.com/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3403
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0648.html

ChangeLog

2006-08-29 : Initial release

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