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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-0891

high Nessus Plugin ID 229979

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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.

 - A heap buffer overflow in ExtractImageSection function in tiffcrop.c in libtiff library Version 4.3.0 allows attacker to trigger unsafe or out of bounds memory access via crafted TIFF image file which could result into application crash, potential information disclosure or any other context-dependent impact (CVE-2022-0891)

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-2022-0891

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 229979

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2022_0891.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/5/2025

Updated: 11/22/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

Percentile: 96.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 5.2

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: 6.7

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:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:compat-libtiff3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw-libtiff, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw32-libtiff-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw64-libtiff, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw-libtiff, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:compat-libtiff3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw32-libtiff-static, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw32-libtiff, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw64-libtiff-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw64-libtiff-static, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw64-libtiff, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw32-libtiff

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: 3/9/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-0891