7.5 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.029 Low
EPSS
Percentile
90.9%
The tiffsplit command contained code that handled fixed-size buffers insecurely, possibly leading to stack overflows.
This problem is fixed in the updated package.
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.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2006-591.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(24116);
script_version("1.14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2006-2656");
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2006-591");
script_name(english:"Fedora Core 4 : libtiff-3.7.1-6.fc4.2 (2006-591)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"The tiffsplit command contained code that handled fixed-size buffers
insecurely, possibly leading to stack overflows.
This problem is fixed in the updated package.
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."
);
# https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2006-May/000127.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?7c594bb6"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Update the affected libtiff, libtiff-debuginfo and / or libtiff-devel
packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_cwe_id(119);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libtiff");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libtiff-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libtiff-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/05/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/01/17");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^4([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 4.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC4", reference:"libtiff-3.7.1-6.fc4.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC4", reference:"libtiff-debuginfo-3.7.1-6.fc4.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC4", reference:"libtiff-devel-3.7.1-6.fc4.2")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "libtiff / libtiff-debuginfo / libtiff-devel");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
fedoraproject | fedora | libtiff | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libtiff |
fedoraproject | fedora | libtiff-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libtiff-debuginfo |
fedoraproject | fedora | libtiff-devel | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libtiff-devel |
fedoraproject | fedora_core | 4 | cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4 |