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Fedora 8 : libtiff-3.8.2-11.fc8 (2008-7388)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34129

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes LZW decoding vulnerabilities described in CVE-2008-2327

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=458674

http://www.nessus.org/u?a1e1e15a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34129

File Name: fedora_2008-7388.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/10/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libtiff, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/5/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2327

BID: 30832

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2008-7388