Fedora 27 : libtiff (2018-399bce9f8f)

high Nessus Plugin ID 119126

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New release with a lot of security fixes:
http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/v4.0.10.html

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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

http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/v4.0.10.html

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-399bce9f8f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 119126

File Name: fedora_2018-399bce9f8f.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/26/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

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: 5.3

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: 7.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libtiff, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/24/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/22/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18557, CVE-2018-18661