An out-of-memory flaw was found in libtiff that could be triggered by passing a crafted tiff file to the TIFFRasterScanlineSize64() API. This flaw allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted input with a size smaller than 379 KB.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An out-of-memory flaw was found in libtiff that could be triggered by passing a crafted tiff file to the     TIFFRasterScanlineSize64() API. This flaw allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a     crafted input with a size smaller than 379 KB. (CVE-2023-52355)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

An update of the libtiff package has been released.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
227328	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-52355	Nessus	Misc.	high
204333	Photon OS 4.0: Libtiff PHSA-2024-4.0-0558	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
204151	Photon OS 5.0: Libtiff PHSA-2024-5.0-0196	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
203881	Photon OS 3.0: Libtiff PHSA-2024-3.0-0719	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2023-52355

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Tenable Plugins

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