An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler version 20.12.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) via crafted .pdf file to FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - poppler: Stack-Overflow in `FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph` (CVE-2020-36023)

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

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4562-1 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.74.0. A recursive function call, in JBIG2Stream::readTextRegion()     located in JBIG2Stream.cc, can be triggered by sending a crafted pdf file to (for example) the pdfimages     binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified     other impact. This is related to JBIG2Bitmap::clearToZero. (CVE-2019-9545)

  - An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler version 20.12.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service (DoS) via crafted .pdf file to FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function. (CVE-2020-36023)

  - A reachable Object::getString assertion in Poppler 22.07.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service     due to a failure in markObject. (CVE-2022-37052)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4546-1 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in Xpdf 4.01.01. There is an out of bounds read in the function     GfxPatchMeshShading::parse at GfxState.cc for typeA!=6 case 1. (CVE-2019-14292)

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.74.0. A recursive function call, in JBIG2Stream::readTextRegion()     located in JBIG2Stream.cc, can be triggered by sending a crafted pdf file to (for example) the pdfimages     binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified     other impact. This is related to JBIG2Bitmap::clearToZero. (CVE-2019-9545)

  - Poppler 0.74.0 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the CairoRescaleBox.cc downsample_row_box_filter     function. (CVE-2019-9631)

  - An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler version 20.12.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service (DoS) via crafted .pdf file to FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function. (CVE-2020-36023)

  - A reachable Object::getString assertion in Poppler 22.07.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service     due to a failure in markObject. (CVE-2022-37052)

  - An infinite recursion in Catalog::findDestInTree can cause denial of service for xpdf 4.02.
    (CVE-2022-48545)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4362-1 advisory.

  - CCITTFaxStream::readRow() in Stream.cc in Xpdf 4.00 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted pdf file, as demonstrated by pdftoppm. (CVE-2018-18454)

  - The function Object::isName() in Object.h (called from Gfx::opSetFillColorN) in Xpdf 4.00 allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read) via a crafted pdf file, as     demonstrated by pdftoppm. (CVE-2018-18456)

  - In Xpdf 4.01.01, there is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the function SplashXPath::strokeAdjust()     located at splash/SplashXPath.cc. It can, for example, be triggered by sending a crafted PDF document to     the pdftoppm tool. It might allow an attacker to cause Information Disclosure. This is related to     CVE-2018-16368. (CVE-2019-13287)

  - An issue was discovered in Xpdf 4.01.01. There is an out of bounds read in the function     GfxPatchMeshShading::parse at GfxState.cc for typeA!=6 case 1. (CVE-2019-14292)

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.74.0. A recursive function call, in JBIG2Stream::readTextRegion()     located in JBIG2Stream.cc, can be triggered by sending a crafted pdf file to (for example) the pdfimages     binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified     other impact. This is related to JBIG2Bitmap::clearToZero. (CVE-2019-9545)

  - Poppler 0.74.0 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the CairoRescaleBox.cc downsample_row_box_filter     function. (CVE-2019-9631)

  - An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler version 20.12.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service (DoS) via crafted .pdf file to FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function. (CVE-2020-36023)

  - A reachable Object::getString assertion in Poppler 22.07.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service     due to a failure in markObject. (CVE-2022-37052)

  - An infinite recursion in Catalog::findDestInTree can cause denial of service for xpdf 4.02.
    (CVE-2022-48545)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4187-1 advisory.

  - CCITTFaxStream::readRow() in Stream.cc in Xpdf 4.00 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted pdf file, as demonstrated by pdftoppm. (CVE-2018-18454)

  - The function Object::isName() in Object.h (called from Gfx::opSetFillColorN) in Xpdf 4.00 allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read) via a crafted pdf file, as     demonstrated by pdftoppm. (CVE-2018-18456)

  - In Xpdf 4.01.01, there is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the function SplashXPath::strokeAdjust()     located at splash/SplashXPath.cc. It can, for example, be triggered by sending a crafted PDF document to     the pdftoppm tool. It might allow an attacker to cause Information Disclosure. This is related to     CVE-2018-16368. (CVE-2019-13287)

  - An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler version 20.12.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service (DoS) via crafted .pdf file to FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function. (CVE-2020-36023)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of poppler installed on the remote host is prior to 0.26.5-43.26. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1850 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler version 20.12.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service (DoS) via crafted .pdf file to FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function. (CVE-2020-36023)

  - An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler version 20.12.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service (DoS) via crafted .pdf file to FoFiType1C::convertToType1 function. (CVE-2020-36024)

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler 22.08.0. There is a reachable assertion in Object.h, will lead to     denial of service because PDFDoc::replacePageDict in PDFDoc.cc lacks a stream check before saving an     embedded file. (CVE-2022-38349)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of poppler installed on the remote host is prior to 0.26.5-43. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2281 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler version 20.12.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service (DoS) via crafted .pdf file to FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function. (CVE-2020-36023)

  - An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler version 20.12.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service (DoS) via crafted .pdf file to FoFiType1C::convertToType1 function. (CVE-2020-36024)

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler 22.08.0. There is a reachable assertion in Object.h, will lead to     denial of service because PDFDoc::replacePageDict in PDFDoc.cc lacks a stream check before saving an     embedded file. (CVE-2022-38349)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6299-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain malformed PDF files. If a user or an automated     system were tricked into opening a specially crafted PDF file, a remote attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-36023, CVE-2020-36024)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3528 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler version 20.12.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service (DoS) via crafted .pdf file to FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function. (CVE-2020-36023)

  - An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler version 20.12.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service (DoS) via crafted .pdf file to FoFiType1C::convertToType1 function. (CVE-2020-36024)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
202313	RHEL 8 : poppler (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
196847	RHEL 6 : poppler (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
196766	RHEL 7 : poppler (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
186258	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2023:4562-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
186252	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2023:4546-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
184405	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2023:4362-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
183855	openSUSE 15 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2023:4187-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
182717	Amazon Linux AMI : poppler (ALAS-2023-1850)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
182632	Amazon Linux 2 : poppler (ALAS-2023-2281)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
179941	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS : poppler vulnerabilities (USN-6299-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
179808	Debian DLA-3528-1 : poppler - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

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