Fedora 19 : libtiff-4.0.3-8.fc19 (2013-14707)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69393

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

tiff2pdf: use-after-tree, gif2tiff: stack-based buffer overflows

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=995965

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=995975

http://www.nessus.org/u?3b77b4ac

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69393

File Name: fedora_2013-14707.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/20/2013

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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:19

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/15/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4231, CVE-2013-4232

FEDORA: 2013-14707