RHEL 9 : libtiff (RHSA-2023:2340)

high Nessus Plugin ID 175464

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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-2023:2340 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* libtiff: heap Buffer overflows in tiffcrop.c (CVE-2022-3570)

* libtiff: out-of-bounds write in _TIFFmemcpy in libtiff/tif_unix (CVE-2022-3597)

* libtiff: out-of-bounds write in extractContigSamplesShifted24bits in tools/tiffcrop.c (CVE-2022-3598)

* libtiff: out-of-bounds read in writeSingleSection in tools/tiffcrop.c (CVE-2022-3599)

* libtiff: out-of-bounds write in _TIFFmemset in libtiff/tif_unix.c (CVE-2022-3626)

* libtiff: out-of-bounds write in _TIFFmemcpy in libtiff/tif_unix.c (CVE-2022-3627)

* libtiff: integer overflow in function TIFFReadRGBATileExt of the file (CVE-2022-3970)

* libtiff: out-of-bounds read in tiffcp in tools/tiffcp.c (CVE-2022-4645)

* libtiff: heap buffer overflow issues related to TIFFTAG_INKNAMES and related TIFFTAG_NUMBEROFINKS value (CVE-2023-30774)

* libtiff: Heap buffer overflow in extractContigSamples32bits, tiffcrop.c (CVE-2023-30775)

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 9.2 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-2023:2340.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 175464

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-2340.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/13/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-3970

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/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, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff-tools, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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: 5/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3570, CVE-2022-3597, CVE-2022-3598, CVE-2022-3599, CVE-2022-3626, CVE-2022-3627, CVE-2022-3970, CVE-2022-4645, CVE-2023-30086, CVE-2023-30774, CVE-2023-30775

CWE: 119, 122, 125, 680, 787

RHSA: 2023:2340

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