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Debian DLA-1259-1 : tiff security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 106409

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in the libtiff image processing library which may result in an application crash and denial of service.

CVE-2017-18013

NULL pointer dereference via crafted TIFF image

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.2-6+deb7u18.

We recommend that you upgrade your tiff 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/2018/01/msg00033.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 106409

File Name: debian_DLA-1259.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/29/2018

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: 3.2

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: 5.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff5, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff5-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff-opengl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff5-alt-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiffxx5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18013