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Debian DLA-221-1 : tiff security update
high Nessus Plugin ID 83499
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Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security update.Description
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the LibTIFF library and utilities for the Tag Image File Format. These could lead to a denial of service, information disclosure or privilege escalation.CVE-2014-8128
William Robinet discovered that out-of-bounds writes are triggered in several of the LibTIFF utilities when processing crafted TIFF files.
Other applications using LibTIFF are also likely to be affected in the same way.
CVE-2014-8129
William Robinet discovered that out-of-bounds reads and writes are triggered in tiff2pdf when processing crafted TIFF files. Other applications using LibTIFF are also likely to be affected in the same way.
CVE-2014-9330
Paris Zoumpouloglou discovered that out-of-bounds reads and writes are triggered in bmp2tiff when processing crafted BMP files.
CVE-2014-9655
Michal Zalewski discovered that out-of-bounds reads and writes are triggered in LibTIFF when processing crafted TIFF files.
For the oldoldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.9.4-5+squeeze12.
For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems will be fixed soon.
The stable distribution (jessie) was not affected by these problems as they were fixed before release.
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Upgrade the affected packages.See Also
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/05/msg00005.html
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 83499
File Name: debian_DLA-221.nasl
Version: 2.12
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 5/18/2015
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous 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
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.8
Temporal Score: 7.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff-opengl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiffxx0c2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff4-dev
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 5/15/2015
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2014-8128, CVE-2014-8129, CVE-2014-9330, CVE-2014-9655