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RHEL 9 : libtiff (RHSA-2023:0302)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 170408

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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 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:0302 advisory.

 - libtiff: division by zero issues in tiffcrop (CVE-2022-2056, CVE-2022-2057, CVE-2022-2058)

 - libtiff: Double free or corruption in rotateImage() function at tiffcrop.c (CVE-2022-2519)

 - libtiff: Assertion fail in rotateImage() function at tiffcrop.c (CVE-2022-2520)

 - libtiff: Invalid pointer free operation in TIFFClose() at tif_close.c (CVE-2022-2521)

 - libtiff: tiffcrop: heap-buffer-overflow in extractImageSection in tiffcrop.c (CVE-2022-2953)

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-2023:0302.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3ab49e34

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2103222

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2122789

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2122792

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2122799

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2134432

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0302

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 170408

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-0302.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/23/2023

Updated: 4/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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-2022-2058

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2521

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff-devel, 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: 1/23/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/30/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2056, CVE-2022-2057, CVE-2022-2058, CVE-2022-2519, CVE-2022-2520, CVE-2022-2521, CVE-2022-2953

CWE: 122, 131, 369, 415, 763

RHSA: 2023:0302