Bug#684233: tiff code embedded in gdal and possibly may be out of date and vulnerable

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 12:59:57AM +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> Control: fixed -1 gdal/1.9.2-1~exp3
> 
> Hi Silvio,
> 
> Since version 1.9.2-1~exp3 in experimental the GDAL packages no longer
> expose the internal *tiff symbols, but still build with their internal
> copies.
> 
> It doesn't entirely address the issue, but the recent updates of GDAL to
> the latest 1.10.1 upstream release should include updates to the
> internal libraries.
> 
> Can you run your tool on the latest gdal 1.10.1+dfsg-2 packages?
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Bas
> 

Well, we should also establish if the inner implementation still makes sense
as in the past, now that BigTiff implementation is provided by stock library.
At the time of my switch to the inner tiff lib, I was motivated mainly by 
that.

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Francesco P. Lovergine