Fedora 17 : libtiff-3.9.7-1.fc17 (2012-20446)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63363

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Update to libtiff 3.9.7 (includes previously-added security fixes)

- Add patches for CVE-2012-4447, CVE-2012-4564, CVE-2012-5581

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libtiff package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837577

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860198

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=867235

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871700

http://www.nessus.org/u?fb2e235a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63363

File Name: fedora_2012-20446.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/31/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libtiff, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/15/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3401, CVE-2012-4447, CVE-2012-4564, CVE-2012-5581

BID: 54601, 55673, 56372, 56715

FEDORA: 2012-20446