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Bug#280373: kfax libtiff vulnerabilities



On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:37:55AM +0100, Andreas Mueller wrote:
> Package: kfax
> Version: 4:3.3.1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> -- cut from the inoffical KDE Security Advisory --
> 
> kfax, a small utility for displaying fax files, contains
> for historic reasons a private copy of libtiff.
> Therefore it is vulnerable to these issues as well.
> 
> As a workaround, you can remove the kfax binary and the
> kfax_multipage KPart from your system to be on the safe
> side. A new package is now on ktown.
> 
> This issue is already sort-of public because Red Hat already announced
> it as part of their kdegraphics update.
> 
> Cheers,
> amu

The kfax in kdegraphics 3.3.1-1 deb is already fixed afaik, they removed
libtiff from kdegraphics source and use libtiff-tools instead.

Chris

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