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RHEL 8 : mingw-libtiff (RHSA-2025:19906)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 274449

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for mingw-libtiff.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:19906 advisory.

 The libtiff package contains a library of functions for manipulating TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image format files. TIFF is a widely used file format for bitmapped images. TIFF files usually end in the .tif extension and they are often quite large. The libtiff package should be installed if you need to manipulate TIFF format image files.

 Security Fix(es):

 * libtiff: LibTIFF Use-After-Free Vulnerability (CVE-2025-8176)

 * libtiff: Libtiff Write-What-Where (CVE-2025-9900)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL mingw-libtiff package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:19906.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2383598

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2392784

http://www.nessus.org/u?42f912a9

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19906

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 274449

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-19906.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/7/2025

Updated: 11/7/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw64-libtiff, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw32-libtiff-static, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw-libtiff, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw64-libtiff-static, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw32-libtiff

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/6/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2025

Reference Information

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

CWE: 123, 416

RHSA: 2025:19906