SUSE SLES12 Security Update : tiff (SUSE-SU-2024:2979-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 206003

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-2024:2979-1 advisory.

- CVE-2024-7006: Fixed null pointer dereference in tif_dirinfo.c (bsc#1228924)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 affected libtiff-devel, libtiff5, libtiff5-32bit and / or tiff packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1228924

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2024-August/036647.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-7006

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 206003

File Name: suse_SU-2024-2979-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/21/2024

Updated: 8/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-7006

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtiff-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tiff, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtiff5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtiff5-32bit

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/20/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/8/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-7006

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:2979-1