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AlmaLinux 9 : libtiff (ALSA-2025:19113)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 271851

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2025:19113 advisory.

 * libtiff: LibTIFF Use-After-Free Vulnerability (CVE-2025-8176)
 * libtiff: Libtiff Write-What-Where (CVE-2025-9900)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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, libtiff-devel and / or libtiff-tools packages.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-19113.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19113

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 271851

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2025-19113.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 10/28/2025

Updated: 10/28/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-8176

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libtiff-tools, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libtiff, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libtiff-devel, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/27/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-8176, CVE-2025-9900

CWE: 119, 123, 416

RHSA: 2025:19113