RHEL 8 : libtiff (RHSA-2022:7585)

high Nessus Plugin ID 167102

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for libtiff.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:7585 advisory.

- libtiff: Denial of Service via crafted TIFF file (CVE-2022-0561)

- libtiff: Null source pointer lead to Denial of Service via crafted TIFF file (CVE-2022-0562)

- libtiff: reachable assertion (CVE-2022-0865)

- libtiff: heap buffer overflow in extractImageSection (CVE-2022-0891)

- tiff: Null source pointer passed as an argument to memcpy in TIFFFetchNormalTag() in tif_dirread.c (CVE-2022-0908)

- tiff: Divide By Zero error in tiffcrop (CVE-2022-0909)

- libtiff: Out-of-bounds Read error in tiffcp (CVE-2022-0924)

- libtiff: stack-buffer-overflow in tiffcp.c in main() (CVE-2022-1355)

- libtiff: out-of-bounds read in _TIFFmemcpy() in tif_unix.c (CVE-2022-22844)

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 RHEL libtiff package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:7585.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 167102

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-7585.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/8/2022

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff-tools

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2022

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-2022-1355, CVE-2022-22844

CWE: 120, 121, 125, 369, 476, 617

RHSA: 2022:7585

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