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Debian DLA-2932-1 : tiff - LTS security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 158649

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-2932 advisory.

 Several issues have been found in tiff, a library and tools to manipulate and convert files in the Tag Image File Format (TIFF). CVE-2022-22844 out-of-bounds read in _TIFFmemcpy in certain situations involving a custom tag and 0x0200 as the second word of the DE field. CVE-2022-0562 Null source pointer passed as an argument to memcpy() function within TIFFReadDirectory(). This could result in a Denial of Service via crafted TIFF files. CVE-2022-0561 Null source pointer passed as an argument to memcpy() function within TIFFFetchStripThing(). This could result in a Denial of Service via crafted TIFF files. For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.8-2+deb9u8. 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 Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at:
 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian 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

Upgrade the tiff packages.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.8-2+deb9u8.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/tiff

https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2022/dla-2932

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-0561

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-0562

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-22844

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 158649

File Name: debian_DLA-2932.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/7/2022

Updated: 1/24/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-22844

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/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, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/6/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-0561, CVE-2022-0562, CVE-2022-22844