SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : tiff (SUSE-SU-2025:03345-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 265837

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-2025:03345-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-9165: local execution manipulation leading to memory leak (bsc#1248330).
- CVE-2025-8534: null pointer dereference in function PS_Lvl2page (bsc#1247582).
- CVE-2025-8961: segmentation fault via main function of tiffcrop utility (bsc#1248117).

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 libtiff5 and / or libtiff5-32bit packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 265837

File Name: suse_SU-2025-03345-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/25/2025

Updated: 9/25/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, 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-2025-9165

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:novell:suse_linux:libtiff5-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtiff5

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/4/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-8534, CVE-2025-8961, CVE-2025-9165

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:03345-1

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