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Fedora 17 : libtiff-3.9.7-2.fc17 (2013-7361)

high Nessus Plugin ID 66501

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Repair minor security issues CVE-2013-1960, CVE-2013-1961

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=952131

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952158

http://www.nessus.org/u?63cd8b01

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 66501

File Name: fedora_2013-7361.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/19/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

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: 5/3/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1960, CVE-2013-1961

BID: 59607, 59609

FEDORA: 2013-7361