RHEL 8 : libtiff (RHSA-2021:4241)

high Nessus Plugin ID 155112

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for libtiff.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:4241 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* libtiff: Integer overflow in tif_getimage.c (CVE-2020-35523)

* libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow in TIFF2PDF tool (CVE-2020-35524)

* libtiff: Memory allocation failure in tiff2rgba (CVE-2020-35521)

* libtiff: Memory allocation failure in tiff2rgba (CVE-2020-35522)

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 8.5 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.

Solution

Update the RHEL libtiff package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:4241.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7240878e

http://www.nessus.org/u?c4baa26f

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4241

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1932034

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1932037

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1932040

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1932044

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 155112

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-4241.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff-tools

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/9/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-35521, CVE-2020-35522, CVE-2020-35523, CVE-2020-35524

CWE: 119, 190, 787

RHSA: 2021:4241