RHEL 8 : libtiff (RHSA-2023:5353)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 181891

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-2023:5353 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* libtiff: out-of-bounds write in extractContigSamplesShifted16bits() in tools/tiffcrop.c (CVE-2023-0800)

* libtiff: out-of-bounds write in _TIFFmemcpy() in libtiff/tif_unix.c when called by functions in tools/tiffcrop.c (CVE-2023-0801)

* libtiff: out-of-bounds write in extractContigSamplesShifted32bits() in tools/tiffcrop.c (CVE-2023-0802)

* libtiff: out-of-bounds write in extractContigSamplesShifted16bits() in tools/tiffcrop.c (CVE-2023-0803)

* libtiff: out-of-bounds write in extractContigSamplesShifted24bits() in tools/tiffcrop.c (CVE-2023-0804)

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.

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-2023:5353.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?87207df8

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170167

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170172

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170178

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170187

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170192

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5353

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 181891

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-5353.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/26/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-0804

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 9/26/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/13/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-0800, CVE-2023-0801, CVE-2023-0802, CVE-2023-0803, CVE-2023-0804

CWE: 787

RHSA: 2023:5353