SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : tiff (SUSE-SU-2024:0973-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192506

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0973-1 advisory.

- CVE-2023-41175: Fixed potential integer overflow in raw2tiff.c (bsc#1214686).
- CVE-2023-38288: Fixed potential integer overflow in raw2tiff.c (bsc#1213590).
- CVE-2023-40745: Fixed integer overflow in tiffcp.c (bsc#1214687).

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1213590

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1214686

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1214687

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1221187

http://www.nessus.org/u?49134b11

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-40745

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-41175

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 192506

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0973-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/23/2024

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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-41175

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtiff5-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tiff, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtiff5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtiff-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 3/22/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-40745, CVE-2023-41175

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0973-1