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Debian DLA-1023-1 : tiff3 security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 101378

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A vulnerabilitie has been discovered in the libtiff library and the included tools, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2017-9936

A crafted TIFF document can lead to a memory leak resulting in a remote denial of service attack.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 3.9.6-11+deb7u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your tiff3 packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/07/msg00015.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/tiff3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 101378

File Name: debian_DLA-1023.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff4-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiffxx0c2, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/11/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9936