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EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : libtiff (EulerOS-SA-2021-2223)

high Nessus Plugin ID 151787

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the libtiff packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - An integer overflow flaw was found in libtiff that exists in the tif_getimage.c file. This flaw allows an attacker to inject and execute arbitrary code when a user opens a crafted TIFF file. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.(CVE-2020-35523)

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

Solution

Update the affected libtiff package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9d765302

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 151787

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-2223.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 7/16/2021

Updated: 12/7/2023

Supported Sensors: 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-2020-35523

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:huawei:euleros:libtiff, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libtiff-devel, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/16/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-35523