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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : tiff (SUSE-SU-2026:4252-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 347905

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:4252-1 advisory.

 This update for tiff fixes the following issue:

 - CVE-2026-18495: libtiff: heap-buffer overflow via numeric truncation in the JPEG raw passthrough (bsc#1280164).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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-devel, libtiff5, libtiff5-32bit and / or tiff packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1280164

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18495

http://www.nessus.org/u?d00b1a8d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 347905

File Name: suse_SU-2026-4252-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/18/2026

Updated: 9/18/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.9

Percentile: 52.47

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-18495

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 9/17/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-18495

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:4252-1