Fedora 15 : libtiff-3.9.4-3.fc15 (2011-2498)

high Nessus Plugin ID 52638

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix buffer overrun in fax decoding (CVE-2011-0192) as well as a non-security-critical crash in gif2tiff.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libtiff package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678635

http://www.nessus.org/u?0f7addcb

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 52638

File Name: fedora_2011-2498.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libtiff, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/3/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0192

BID: 46658

FEDORA: 2011-2498