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RHEL 5 : libtiff (RHSA-2008:0847)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34063

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated libtiff packages that fix a security issue and a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files.

Multiple uses of uninitialized values were discovered in libtiff's Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression algorithm decoder. An attacker could create a carefully crafted LZW-encoded TIFF file that would cause an application linked with libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-2327)

Red Hat would like to thank Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security team for reporting this issue.

Additionally, these updated packages fix the following bug :

* the libtiff packages included manual pages for the sgi2tiff and tiffsv commands, which are not included in these packages. These extraneous manual pages were removed.

All libtiff users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.

Solution

Update the affected libtiff and / or libtiff-devel packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2327

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0847

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34063

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2008-0847.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/30/2008

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.2, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/28/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2327

BID: 30832

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2008:0847