SUSE SLES12 Security Update : tiff (SUSE-SU-2022:1667-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 161223

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:1667-1 advisory.

- CVE-2022-0561: Fixed null source pointer passed as an argument to memcpy() within TIFFFetchStripThing() in tif_dirread.c (bsc#1195964).
- CVE-2022-0562: Fixed null source pointer passed as an argument to memcpy() within TIFFReadDirectory() in tif_dirread.c (bsc#1195965).
- CVE-2022-0865: Fixed assertion failure in TIFFReadAndRealloc (bsc#1197066).
- CVE-2022-0909: Fixed divide by zero error in tiffcrop that could have led to a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file (bsc#1197072).
- CVE-2022-0924: Fixed out-of-bounds read error in tiffcp that could have led to a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file (bsc#1197073).
- CVE-2022-0908: Fixed null source pointer passed as an argument to memcpy in TIFFFetchNormalTag() (bsc#1197074).
- CVE-2022-1056: Fixed out-of-bounds read error in tiffcrop that could have led to a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file (bsc#1197631).
- CVE-2022-0891: Fixed heap buffer overflow in extractImageSection (bsc#1197068).

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 libtiff-devel, libtiff5, libtiff5-32bit and / or tiff packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 161223

File Name: suse_SU-2022-1667-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/17/2022

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

Percentile: 96.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-0891

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tiff, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtiff5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtiff-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtiff5-32bit

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/16/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/11/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-0561, CVE-2022-0562, CVE-2022-0865, CVE-2022-0891, CVE-2022-0908, CVE-2022-0909, CVE-2022-0924, CVE-2022-1056

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:1667-1

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