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Fedora 41 : libtiff (2025-5869edf3de)

low Nessus Plugin ID 258026

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-5869edf3de advisory.

 - fix CVE-2025-8534: null pointer dereference in tiff2ps (rhbz#2386494)


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 - fix CVE-2024-13978: null pointer dereference in tiff2pdf (rhbz#2386201)


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-5869edf3de

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 258026

File Name: fedora_2025-5869edf3de.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/27/2025

Updated: 8/27/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1

Temporal Score: 0.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-8534

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.5

Temporal Score: 2.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2

Threat Score: 0.4

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libtiff, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/12/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/1/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-13978, CVE-2025-8534