In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of CVE-2018-20662.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 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: reachable assertion due to a failure in markObject() (CVE-2022-37052)

  - In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service     (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled     in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of     CVE-2018-20662. (CVE-2022-37050)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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 Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6508-1 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. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu     20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-23804)

    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-2022-37050, CVE-2022-37051, CVE-2022-37052, CVE-2022-38349)

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-3620 advisory.

  - Uncontrolled Recursion in pdfinfo, and pdftops in poppler 0.89.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service via crafted input. (CVE-2020-23804)

  - In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service     (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled     in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of     CVE-2018-20662. (CVE-2022-37050)

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler 22.07.0. There is a reachable abort which leads to denial of service     because the main function in pdfunite.cc lacks a stream check before saving an embedded file.
    (CVE-2022-37051)

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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3998-1 advisory.

  - Uncontrolled Recursion in pdfinfo, and pdftops in poppler 0.89.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service via crafted input. (CVE-2020-23804)

  - 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)

  - In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service     (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled     in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of     CVE-2018-20662. (CVE-2022-37050)

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler 22.07.0. There is a reachable abort which leads to denial of service     because the main function in pdfunite.cc lacks a stream check before saving an embedded file.
    (CVE-2022-37051)

  - 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 SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3981-1 advisory.

  - Uncontrolled Recursion in pdfinfo, and pdftops in poppler 0.89.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service via crafted input. (CVE-2020-23804)

  - 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)

  - In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service     (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled     in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of     CVE-2018-20662. (CVE-2022-37050)

  - 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 SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3983-1 advisory.

  - Uncontrolled Recursion in pdfinfo, and pdftops in poppler 0.89.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service via crafted input. (CVE-2020-23804)

  - 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)

  - In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service     (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled     in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of     CVE-2018-20662. (CVE-2022-37050)

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler 22.07.0. There is a reachable abort which leads to denial of service     because the main function in pdfunite.cc lacks a stream check before saving an embedded file.
    (CVE-2022-37051)

  - 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 SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3982-1 advisory.

  - Uncontrolled Recursion in pdfinfo, and pdftops in poppler 0.89.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service via crafted input. (CVE-2020-23804)

  - 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)

  - In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service     (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled     in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of     CVE-2018-20662. (CVE-2022-37050)

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler 22.07.0. There is a reachable abort which leads to denial of service     because the main function in pdfunite.cc lacks a stream check before saving an embedded file.
    (CVE-2022-37051)

  - 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 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-2023:3947-1 advisory.

  - In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service     (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled     in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of     CVE-2018-20662. (CVE-2022-37050)

  - An issue was discovered in Poppler 22.07.0. There is a reachable abort which leads to denial of service     because the main function in pdfunite.cc lacks a stream check before saving an embedded file.
    (CVE-2022-37051)

  - 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 0.26.5-43.24. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1821 advisory.

  - In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service     (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled     in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of     CVE-2018-20662. (CVE-2022-37050)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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 ALAS2-2023-2243 advisory.

  - Buffer Overflow vulnerability in HtmlOutputDev::page in poppler 0.75.0 allows attackers to cause a denial     of service. (CVE-2020-18839)

  - In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service     (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled     in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of     CVE-2018-20662. (CVE-2022-37050)

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
199491	RHEL 9 : 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
186209	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : poppler vulnerabilities (USN-6508-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
183199	Debian DLA-3620-1 : poppler - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
182744	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2023:3998-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
182674	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2023:3981-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
182672	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2023:3983-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
182670	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2023:3982-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
182492	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2023:3947-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
181220	Amazon Linux AMI : poppler (ALAS-2023-1821)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
181131	Amazon Linux 2 : poppler (ALAS-2023-2243)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium

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