SUSE SLES12 Security Update : tiff (SUSE-SU-2026:3027-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 327305

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:3027-1 advisory.

This update for tiff fixes the following issues

- CVE-2026-12912: heap-based buffer overflow when processing crafted PixarLog-compressed TIFF image (bsc#1269779).
- CVE-2026-36849: denial of service when processing a a crafted TIFF file containing a large SamplesPerPixel tag value (bsc#1268434).

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 libtiff-devel, libtiff5, libtiff5-32bit and / or tiff packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 327305

File Name: suse_SU-2026-3027-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/16/2026

Updated: 7/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-12912

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtiff5-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tiff, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtiff-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtiff5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/15/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/29/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-12912, CVE-2026-36849

IAVA: 2026-A-0670

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:3027-1

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