RHEL 9 : libtiff (RHSA-2023:6575)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 185133

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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 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6575 advisory.

- libtiff: null pointer deference in LZWDecode() in libtiff/tif_lzw.c (CVE-2023-2731)

- libtiff: tiffcrop: null pointer dereference in TIFFClose() (CVE-2023-3316)

- libtiff: memory leak in tiffcrop.c (CVE-2023-3576)

- libtiff: heap-based use after free via a crafted TIFF image in loadImage() in tiffcrop.c (CVE-2023-26965)

- libtiff: Buffer Overflow in uv_encode() (CVE-2023-26966)

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-2023:6575.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 185133

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-6575.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/7/2023

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: 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-2023-3316

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff

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: 11/7/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/17/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-26965, CVE-2023-26966, CVE-2023-2731, CVE-2023-3316, CVE-2023-3576

CWE: 119, 120, 416, 476

RHSA: 2023:6575

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