The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2053 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * libtiff: buffer overflow in gif2tiff (CVE-2016-3186)

    * libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow in the cpSeparateBufToContigBuf function resulting in a denial of     service or possibly code execution (CVE-2018-12900)

    * libtiff: Out-of-bounds write in tif_jbig.c (CVE-2018-18557)

    * libtiff: NULL pointer dereference in tif_print.c:TIFFPrintDirectory() causes a denial of service     (CVE-2018-7456)

    * libtiff: heap-based buffer overflow in tif_lzw.c:LZWDecodeCompat() allows for denial of service     (CVE-2018-8905)

    * libtiff: heap-based buffer over-read in TIFFWriteScanline function in tif_write.c (CVE-2018-10779)

    * libtiff: reachable assertion in TIFFWriteDirectorySec function in tif_dirwrite.c (CVE-2018-10963)

    * libtiff: Integer overflow in multiply_ms in tools/ppm2tiff.c (CVE-2018-17100)

    * libtiff: Two out-of-bounds writes in cpTags in tools/tiff2bw.c and tools/pal2rgb.c (CVE-2018-17101)

    * libtiff: tiff2bw tool failed memory allocation leads to crash (CVE-2018-18661)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 7 : libtiff (RHSA-2019:2053)

high Nessus Plugin ID 127662

Version 1.8

Version 1.7

Version 1.6

Version 1.8 Nov 7, 2024, 2:42 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411070242
Version 1.7 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.6 Apr 25, 2024, 2:46 AM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2018-8905") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404250246