RHEL 8 : libtiff (RHSA-2024:5079)

high Nessus Plugin ID 205156

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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 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:5079 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow in ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip in tif_dirread.c (CVE-2018-15209)

* libtiff: Buffer Overflow via /libtiff/tools/tiffcrop.c (CVE-2023-25433)

* libtiff: heap-based buffer overflow in cpStripToTile() in tools/tiffcp.c (CVE-2023-6228)

* libtiff: Segment fault in libtiff in TIFFReadRGBATileExt() leading to denial of service (CVE-2023-52356)

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-2024:5079.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 205156

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-5079.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/7/2024

Updated: 8/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-15209

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: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, 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: 8/7/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/7/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15209, CVE-2023-25433, CVE-2023-52356, CVE-2023-6228

CWE: 120, 122, 787

RHSA: 2024:5079

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