SUSE SLES12 Security Update : tiff (SUSE-SU-2023:4371-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 184800

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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-2023:4371-1 advisory.

- CVE-2023-38289: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in raw2tiff (bsc#1213589).
- CVE-2023-38288: Fixed an integer overflow in raw2tiff (bsc#1213590).
- CVE-2023-3576: Fixed a memory leak in tiffcrop (bsc#1213273).
- CVE-2020-18768: Fixed an out of bounds read in tiffcp (bsc#1214574).
- CVE-2023-26966: Fixed an out of bounds read when transforming a little-endian file to a big-endian output (bsc#1212881)
- CVE-2023-3618: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference while encoding FAX3 files (bsc#1213274).
- CVE-2023-2908: Fixed an undefined behavior issue when doing pointer arithmetic on a NULL pointer (bsc#1212888).
- CVE-2023-3316: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference while opening a file in an inaccessible path (bsc#1212535).
- CVE-2023-25433: Fixed a buffer overflow in tiffcrop (bsc#1212883).

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: Medium

ID: 184800

File Name: suse_SU-2023-4371-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/7/2023

Updated: 9/24/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-3618

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtiff-devel, 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: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: 11/6/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/19/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-18768, CVE-2023-25433, CVE-2023-26966, CVE-2023-2908, CVE-2023-3316, CVE-2023-3576, CVE-2023-3618

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:4371-1

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