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Fedora 44 : libtiff (2025-bc6408ea0e)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 265804

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-bc6408ea0e advisory.

 Automatic update for libtiff-4.7.0-9.fc44.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Wed Sep 24 2025 Michal Hlavinka <[email protected]> - 4.7.0-9
 - fix CVE-2025-8961 memory corruption in tiffcrop(rhbz#2388596)

 ```

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-bc6408ea0e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 265804

File Name: fedora_2025-bc6408ea0e.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2025

Updated: 9/24/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.7

Temporal Score: 1.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-8961

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 3

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/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:44

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/14/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-8961