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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : tiff (SUSE-SU-2025:02815-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 250307

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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 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02815-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-8176: Fixed heap use-after-free in tools/tiffmedian.c (bsc#1247108)
 - CVE-2025-8177: Fixed possible buffer overflow in tools/thumbnail.c:setrow() when processing malformed TIFF files (bsc#1247106)

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 and / or libtiff5-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1247106

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1247108

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8176

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8177

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-August/041224.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 250307

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02815-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/16/2025

Updated: 8/16/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-8177

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-8176

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtiff-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/15/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-8176, CVE-2025-8177

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02815-1