RHEL 8 : libtiff (RHSA-2024:8833)

high Nessus Plugin ID 210357

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-2024:8833 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* libtiff: NULL pointer dereference in tif_dirinfo.c (CVE-2024-7006)

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 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-2024:8833.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302996

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8833

http://www.nessus.org/u?98d8e218

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 210357

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-8833.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/5/2024

Updated: 11/5/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff-tools, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/8/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-7006

CWE: 476

RHSA: 2024:8833