SUSE SLES11 Security Update : tiff (SUSE-SU-2022:14888-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 158178

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:14888-1 advisory.

- CVE-2015-8683: Fixed out-of-bounds when reading CIE Lab image format files (bsc#1156754).
- CVE-2015-8665: Fixed out-of-bounds read in tif_getimage.c (bsc#1156749).
- CVE-2020-35521: Fixed memory allocation failure in tif_read.c (bsc#1182808).
- CVE-2020-35522: Fixed memory allocation failure in tif_pixarlog.c (bsc#1182809).
- CVE-2020-35523: Fixed integer overflow in tif_getimage.c (bsc#1182811).
- CVE-2020-35524: Fixed heap-based buffer overflow in TIFF2PDF tool (bsc#1182812).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libtiff3, libtiff3-32bit and / or tiff packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 158178

File Name: suse_SU-2022-14888-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/19/2022

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, tenable_cloud_security, tenable_self_hosted_container_security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-35524

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtiff3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tiff, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtiff3, 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: 2/18/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/23/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8665, CVE-2015-8683, CVE-2020-35521, CVE-2020-35522, CVE-2020-35523, CVE-2020-35524

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:14888-1

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