Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
MITRE description: Integer overflow in the TIFFFetchStripThing function in tif_dirread.c for libtiff 3.6.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a TIFF file with the STRIPOFFSETS flag and a large number of strips, which causes a zero byte buffer to be allocated and leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.
Statement: This issue was resolved in all affected libtiff versions as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4 via a patch for CVE-2004-0886. For updates containing patches for CVE-2004-0886, see: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/CVE-2004-0886.html