The error function in Error.cc in poppler before 0.21.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a PDF containing an escape sequence for a terminal emulator.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - poppler: heap buffer overflow in ExponentialFunction (CVE-2015-8868)

  - poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in function downsample_row_box_filter in CairoRescaleBox.cc     (CVE-2019-9631)

  - DCTStream.cc in Poppler before 0.13.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a     crafted PDF file. (CVE-2010-5110)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - poppler: recursive function call in JBIG2Stream::readGenericBitmap() in JBIG2Stream.cc causing denial of     service (CVE-2019-9543)

  - DCTStream.cc in Poppler before 0.13.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a     crafted PDF file. (CVE-2010-5110)

  - The error function in Error.cc in poppler before 0.21.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary     commands via a PDF containing an escape sequence for a terminal emulator. (CVE-2012-2142)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates.

poppler was updated to fix a security problem. PDF files could emit messages with terminal escape sequences which could be used to inject shell code if the user ran a PDF viewer from a terminal shell (CVE-2012-2142).

Also a bug was fixed to avoid division by zero when using origpagesizes option (bnc#795582)

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201310-03 (Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Poppler. Please review       the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF       file, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the       privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Fix icon issue in desktop file. Resolve CVE-2012-2142 poppler, xpdf:
Insufficient sanitization of escape sequences in the error messages

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.

This update fixes a problem with escaping of error messages (CVE-2012-2142).

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.

New poppler packages are available for Slackware 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue.

New xpdf packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199549	RHEL 6 : poppler (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
199510	RHEL 5 : poppler (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
80824	Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : xpdf (cve_2012_2142_arbitrary_code)	Nessus	Solaris Local Security Checks	high
75126	openSUSE Security Update : poppler (openSUSE-SU-2013:1371-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
70309	GLSA-201310-03 : Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
70238	Fedora 20 : xpdf-3.03-8.fc20 (2013-17398)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
70237	Fedora 19 : xpdf-3.03-8.fc19 (2013-17397)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
70236	Fedora 18 : xpdf-3.03-8.fc18 (2013-17375)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
69772	Fedora 18 : poppler-0.20.2-16.fc18 (2013-15013)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
69433	Slackware 14.0 / current : poppler (SSA:2013-233-03)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	high
69432	Slackware 12.1 / 12.2 / 13.0 / 13.1 / 13.37 / 14.0 / current : xpdf (SSA:2013-233-02)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	high

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