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Debian DLA-1557-1 : tiff security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 118470

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2018-17100 An int32 overflow can cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image file

CVE-2018-17101 Out-of-bounds writes can cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image file

CVE-2018-18557 Out-of-bounds write due to ignoring buffer size can cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image file

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u7.

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/2018/10/msg00019.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 118470

File Name: debian_DLA-1557.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/29/2018

Updated: 7/29/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18557

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff5, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff5-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff-opengl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff-doc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiffxx5

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: 10/28/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17100, CVE-2018-17101, CVE-2018-18557