Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update for tiff fixes the following issues :
Security issues fixed :
CVE-2018-19210: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in the TIFFWriteDirectorySec function (bsc#1115717).
CVE-2017-12944: Fixed denial of service issue in the TIFFReadDirEntryArray function (bsc#1054594).
CVE-2016-10094: Fixed heap-based buffer overflow in the _tiffWriteProc function (bsc#1017693).
CVE-2016-10093: Fixed heap-based buffer overflow in the _TIFFmemcpy function (bsc#1017693).
CVE-2016-10092: Fixed heap-based buffer overflow in the TIFFReverseBits function (bsc#1017693).
CVE-2016-6223: Fixed out-of-bounds read on memory-mapped files in TIFFReadRawStrip1() and TIFFReadRawTile1() (bsc#990460).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2018-2991=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-2991=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2018-2991=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-2991=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2018-2991=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-2991=1