Security advisory

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    "summary": "tools/tiffcrop.c in libtiff 4.0.6 has an out-of-bounds read in readContigTilesIntoBuffer(). Reported as MSVR 35092.",
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  "published_at": "2016-11-22T19:59:07.807+00:00"
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