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RHEL 8 : libtiff (RHSA-2024:3059)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 197798

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for libtiff.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:3059 advisory.

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

 Security Fix(es):

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

 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 8.10 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 this issue 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-2024:3059.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?6cbcbb71

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3059

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?99ff6172

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2176220

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 197798

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-3059.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/23/2024

Updated: 6/3/2024

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: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-4645

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/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, 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: 5/22/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/3/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-4645

CWE: 125

RHSA: 2024:3059