Debian DLA-2694-1 : tiff security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 151028

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the libtiff library and the included tools, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if malformed image files are processed.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.8-2+deb9u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.

For the detailed security status of tiff please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/tiff

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 151028

File Name: debian_DLA-2694.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/28/2021

Updated: 10/18/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-35524

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/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, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff-opengl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff-doc, 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: 6/27/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/9/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-35523, CVE-2020-35524

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