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EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : libtiff (EulerOS-SA-2024-2533)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 208315

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the versions of the libtiff package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 A flaw was found in the libtiff library. An out-of-memory issue in the TIFFReadEncodedStrip function can be triggered when processing a crafted tiff file, allowing attackers to perform memory allocation of arbitrary sizes, resulting in a denial of service.(CVE-2024-6716)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS libtiff 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 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?aaeb0075

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 208315

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-2533.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 10/9/2024

Updated: 10/9/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-6716

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libtiff

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

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/15/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-6716