SUSE SLES11 Security Update : tiff (SUSE-SU-2019:14002-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 123638

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for tiff fixes the following issue :

Security vulnerabilities fixed :

CVE-2016-5102: Fixed a buffer overflow in readgifimage() (bsc#983268)

CVE-2019-6128: Fixed a memory leak in the TIFFFdOpen function in tif_unix.c (bsc#1121626)

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 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch sdksp4-tiff-14002=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-tiff-14002=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3:zypper in -t patch sleposp3-tiff-14002=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-tiff-14002=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121626

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=983268

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5102/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6128/

http://www.nessus.org/u?ab03f625

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 123638

File Name: suse_SU-2019-14002-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/2/2019

Updated: 1/26/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-6128

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: E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtiff3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tiff, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/1/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5102, CVE-2019-6128