A logic error in the Hints::Hints function of Poppler v22.03.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted PDF file.

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

The remote Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2022:8151 advisory.

  - A logic error in the Hints::Hints function of Poppler v22.03.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of     Service (DoS) via a crafted PDF file. (CVE-2022-27337)

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

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-371 advisory.

    2024-07-17: CVE-2022-27337 was added to this advisory.

    A logic error in the Hints::Hints function of Poppler v22.03.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of     Service (DoS) via a crafted PDF file. (CVE-2022-27337)

    A vulnerability in Outline.cc for Poppler prior to 23.06.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of     Service (DoS) (crash) via a crafted PDF file in OutlineItem::open. (CVE-2023-34872)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6273-1 advisory.

    Jieyong Ma discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain malformed PDF files. A remote attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-27337)

    It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain malformed PDF files. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-34872)

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 SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3168-1 advisory.

  - A logic error in the Hints::Hints function of Poppler v22.03.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of     Service (DoS) via a crafted PDF file. (CVE-2022-27337)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-2023:2906-1 advisory.

  - The FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler through 0.64.0 allows remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via a crafted PDF file, as demonstrated by pdftops.
    (CVE-2017-18267)

  - Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that     is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and     denial of service. This may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF file.
    (CVE-2018-13988)

  - In Poppler 0.68.0, the Parser::getObj() function in Parser.cc may cause infinite recursion via a crafted     file. A remote attacker can leverage this for a DoS attack. (CVE-2018-16646)

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in     GfxState.cc, as demonstrated by pdftocairo. (CVE-2018-18897)

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a reachable abort in Object.h, will lead to denial of     service because EmbFile::save2 in FileSpec.cc lacks a stream check before saving an embedded file.
    (CVE-2018-19058)

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a out-of-bounds read in EmbFile::save2 in FileSpec.cc,     will lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating embedded files before     save attempts. (CVE-2018-19059)

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a NULL pointer dereference in goo/GooString.h, will     lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating a filename of an embedded     file before constructing a save path. (CVE-2018-19060)

  - Poppler before 0.70.0 has a NULL pointer dereference in _poppler_attachment_new when called from     poppler_annot_file_attachment_get_attachment. (CVE-2018-19149)

  - XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc in Poppler 0.72.0 mishandles unallocated XRef entries, which allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted PDF document, when     XRefEntry::setFlag in XRef.h is called from Parser::makeStream in Parser.cc. (CVE-2018-20481)

  - A reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in Poppler 0.72.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service     due to the lack of a check for the dict data type, as demonstrated by use of the FileSpec class (in     FileSpec.cc) in pdfdetach. (CVE-2018-20650)

  - Poppler before 0.66.0 has an integer overflow in Parser::makeStream in Parser.cc. (CVE-2018-21009)

  - In Poppler 0.73.0, a heap-based buffer over-read (due to an integer signedness error in the XRef::getEntry     function in XRef.cc) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly     have unspecified other impact via a crafted PDF document, as demonstrated by pdftocairo. (CVE-2019-7310)

  - A logic error in the Hints::Hints function of Poppler v22.03.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of     Service (DoS) via a crafted PDF file. (CVE-2022-27337)

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-2023:2907-1 advisory.

  - The FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler through 0.64.0 allows remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via a crafted PDF file, as demonstrated by pdftops.
    (CVE-2017-18267)

  - Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that     is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and     denial of service. This may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF file.
    (CVE-2018-13988)

  - In Poppler 0.68.0, the Parser::getObj() function in Parser.cc may cause infinite recursion via a crafted     file. A remote attacker can leverage this for a DoS attack. (CVE-2018-16646)

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in     GfxState.cc, as demonstrated by pdftocairo. (CVE-2018-18897)

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a reachable abort in Object.h, will lead to denial of     service because EmbFile::save2 in FileSpec.cc lacks a stream check before saving an embedded file.
    (CVE-2018-19058)

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a out-of-bounds read in EmbFile::save2 in FileSpec.cc,     will lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating embedded files before     save attempts. (CVE-2018-19059)

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a NULL pointer dereference in goo/GooString.h, will     lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating a filename of an embedded     file before constructing a save path. (CVE-2018-19060)

  - Poppler before 0.70.0 has a NULL pointer dereference in _poppler_attachment_new when called from     poppler_annot_file_attachment_get_attachment. (CVE-2018-19149)

  - XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc in Poppler 0.72.0 mishandles unallocated XRef entries, which allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted PDF document, when     XRefEntry::setFlag in XRef.h is called from Parser::makeStream in Parser.cc. (CVE-2018-20481)

  - A reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in Poppler 0.72.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service     due to the lack of a check for the dict data type, as demonstrated by use of the FileSpec class (in     FileSpec.cc) in pdfdetach. (CVE-2018-20650)

  - Poppler before 0.66.0 has an integer overflow in Parser::makeStream in Parser.cc. (CVE-2018-21009)

  - In Poppler through 0.76.1, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in JPXStream::init in JPEG2000Stream.cc     via data with inconsistent heights or widths. (CVE-2019-12293)

  - In Poppler 0.73.0, a heap-based buffer over-read (due to an integer signedness error in the XRef::getEntry     function in XRef.cc) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly     have unspecified other impact via a crafted PDF document, as demonstrated by pdftocairo. (CVE-2019-7310)

  - A logic error in the Hints::Hints function of Poppler v22.03.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of     Service (DoS) via a crafted PDF file. (CVE-2022-27337)

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-2023:2838-1 advisory.

  - Poppler before 0.66.0 has an integer overflow in Parser::makeStream in Parser.cc. (CVE-2018-21009)

  - In Poppler through 0.76.1, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in JPXStream::init in JPEG2000Stream.cc     via data with inconsistent heights or widths. (CVE-2019-12293)

  - A logic error in the Hints::Hints function of Poppler v22.03.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of     Service (DoS) via a crafted PDF file. (CVE-2022-27337)

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 ALAS2-2023-2075 advisory.

    A logic error in the Hints::Hints function of Poppler v22.03.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of     Service (DoS) via a crafted PDF file. (CVE-2022-27337)

    Poppler prior to and including 22.08.0 contains an integer overflow in the JBIG2 decoder     (JBIG2Stream::readTextRegionSeg() in JBIGStream.cc). Processing a specially crafted PDF file or JBIG2     image could lead to a crash or the execution of arbitrary code. This is similar to the vulnerability     described by CVE-2022-38171 in Xpdf. (CVE-2022-38784)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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 Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2022-8151 advisory.

    [21.01.0-13]
    - Dont run out of file for Hints
    - Rebuild for #2096451
    - Resolves: #2090970, #2096451

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

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

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2022:8151 advisory.

  - A logic error in the Hints::Hints function of Poppler v22.03.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of     Service (DoS) via a crafted PDF file. (CVE-2022-27337)

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

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2022:7594 advisory.

  - A logic error in the Hints::Hints function of Poppler v22.03.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of     Service (DoS) via a crafted PDF file. (CVE-2022-27337)

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:8151 advisory.

    Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF) rendering library, used by applications such as Evince.

    Security Fix(es):

    * poppler: A logic error in the Hints::Hints function can cause denial of service (CVE-2022-27337)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2022-7594 advisory.

    [20.11.0-5]
    - Dont run out of file for Hints
    - Rebuild for #2096452
    - Resolves: #2090969, #2096452

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

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

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2022:7594 advisory.

  - A logic error in the Hints::Hints function of Poppler v22.03.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of     Service (DoS) via a crafted PDF file. (CVE-2022-27337)

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

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2022:7594 advisory.

  - poppler: A logic error in the Hints::Hints function can cause denial of service (CVE-2022-27337)

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:7594 advisory.

    Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF) rendering library, used by applications such as Evince.

    Security Fix(es):

    * poppler: A logic error in the Hints::Hints function can cause denial of service (CVE-2022-27337)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-3120 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in     GfxState.cc, as demonstrated by pdftocairo. (CVE-2018-18897)

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a reachable abort in Object.h, will lead to denial of     service because EmbFile::save2 in FileSpec.cc lacks a stream check before saving an embedded file.
    (CVE-2018-19058)

  - A reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in Poppler 0.72.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service     due to the lack of a check for the dict data type, as demonstrated by use of the FileSpec class (in     FileSpec.cc) in pdfdetach. (CVE-2018-20650)

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler through 0.78.0. There is a divide-by-zero error in the function     SplashOutputDev::tilingPatternFill at SplashOutputDev.cc. (CVE-2019-14494)

  - PDFDoc::markObject in PDFDoc.cc in Poppler 0.74.0 mishandles dict marking, leading to stack consumption in     the function Dict::find() located at Dict.cc, which can (for example) be triggered by passing a crafted     pdf file to the pdfunite binary. (CVE-2019-9903)

  - The JPXStream::init function in Poppler 0.78.0 and earlier doesn't check for negative values of stream     length, leading to an Integer Overflow, thereby making it possible to allocate a large memory chunk on the     heap, with a size controlled by an attacker, as demonstrated by pdftocairo. (CVE-2019-9959)

  - A flaw was found in Poppler in the way certain PDF files were converted into HTML. A remote attacker could     exploit this flaw by providing a malicious PDF file that, when processed by the 'pdftohtml' program, would     crash the application causing a denial of service. (CVE-2020-27778)

  - A logic error in the Hints::Hints function of Poppler v22.03.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of     Service (DoS) via a crafted PDF file. (CVE-2022-27337)

  - Poppler prior to and including 22.08.0 contains an integer overflow in the JBIG2 decoder     (JBIG2Stream::readTextRegionSeg() in JBIGStream.cc). Processing a specially crafted PDF file or JBIG2     image could lead to a crash or the execution of arbitrary code. This is similar to the vulnerability     described by CVE-2022-38171 in Xpdf. (CVE-2022-38784)

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 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5224 advisory.

  - A logic error in the Hints::Hints function of Poppler v22.03.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of     Service (DoS) via a crafted PDF file. (CVE-2022-27337)

  - Poppler prior to and including 22.08.0 contains an integer overflow in the JBIG2 decoder     (JBIG2Stream::readTextRegionSeg() in JBIGStream.cc). Processing a specially crafted PDF file or JBIG2     image could lead to a crash or the execution of arbitrary code. This is similar to the vulnerability     described by CVE-2022-38171 in Xpdf. (CVE-2022-38784)

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
196766	RHEL 7 : poppler (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
184849	Rocky Linux 9 : poppler (RLSA-2022:8151)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	medium
182449	Amazon Linux 2023 : poppler, poppler-cpp, poppler-cpp-devel (ALAS2023-2023-371)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
179334	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : poppler vulnerabilities (USN-6273-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
179290	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2023:3168-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
178695	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2023:2906-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
178693	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2023:2907-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
178318	openSUSE 15 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2023:2838-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
176938	Amazon Linux 2 : poppler (ALAS-2023-2075)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
168107	Oracle Linux 9 : poppler (ELSA-2022-8151)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
167977	AlmaLinux 9 : poppler (ALSA-2022:8151)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	medium
167789	Rocky Linux 8 : poppler (RLSA-2022:7594)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	medium
167624	RHEL 9 : poppler (RHSA-2022:8151)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
167556	Oracle Linux 8 : poppler (ELSA-2022-7594)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
167297	AlmaLinux 8 : poppler (ALSA-2022:7594)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	medium
167190	CentOS 8 : poppler (CESA-2022:7594)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
167151	RHEL 8 : poppler (RHSA-2022:7594)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
165449	Debian DLA-3120-1 : poppler - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
164813	Debian DSA-5224-1 : poppler - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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