RHEL 8 : libtiff (RHSA-2022:7585)

high Nessus Plugin ID 167102

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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-2022:7585 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* libtiff: Denial of Service via crafted TIFF file (CVE-2022-0561)

* libtiff: Null source pointer lead to Denial of Service via crafted TIFF file (CVE-2022-0562)

* libtiff: reachable assertion (CVE-2022-0865)

* libtiff: Out-of-bounds Read error in tiffcp (CVE-2022-0924)

* libtiff: stack-buffer-overflow in tiffcp.c in main() (CVE-2022-1355)

* libtiff: out-of-bounds read in _TIFFmemcpy() in tif_unix.c (CVE-2022-22844)

* libtiff: heap buffer overflow in extractImageSection (CVE-2022-0891)

* tiff: Null source pointer passed as an argument to memcpy in TIFFFetchNormalTag() in tif_dirread.c (CVE-2022-0908)

* tiff: Divide By Zero error in tiffcrop (CVE-2022-0909)

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 8.7 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.

Solution

Update the RHEL libtiff package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:7585.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 167102

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-7585.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/8/2022

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: 5.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-0891

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-0561, CVE-2022-0562, CVE-2022-0865, CVE-2022-0891, CVE-2022-0908, CVE-2022-0909, CVE-2022-0924, CVE-2022-1355, CVE-2022-22844

CWE: 120, 121, 125, 369, 476, 617

RHSA: 2022:7585

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