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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-5849

medium Nessus Plugin ID 220911

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - tiffttopnm in netpbm 10.47.63 does not properly use the libtiff TIFFRGBAImageGet function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and write) via a crafted tiff image file, related to transposing width and height values. (CVE-2017-5849)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-5849

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 220911

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2017_5849.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 9/5/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5849

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:netpbm-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:netpbm-progs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:netpbm, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:netpbm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:netpbm-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:netpbm-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:netpbm-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:netpbm-progs

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5849