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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : netpbm (SUSE-SU-2024:0434-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 190340

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0434-1 advisory.

 - tiffttopnm in netpbm 10.47.63 does not properly use the libtiff TIFFRGBAImageGet function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and write) via a crafted tiff image file, related to transposing width and height values. (CVE-2017-5849)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libnetpbm-devel, libnetpbm11, libnetpbm11-32bit and / or netpbm packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1022790

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1022791

http://www.nessus.org/u?ab48b507

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5849

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 190340

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0434-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/9/2024

Updated: 2/9/2024

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-2017-5849

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:novell:suse_linux:libnetpbm-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libnetpbm11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libnetpbm11-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:netpbm, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5849

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0434-1