A flaw was found in the Poppler's Pdfinfo utility. This issue occurs when using -dests parameter with pdfinfo utility. By using certain malformed input files, an attacker could cause the utility to crash, leading to a denial of service.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-741 advisory.

    A flaw was found in the Poppler's Pdfinfo utility. This issue occurs when using -dests parameter with     pdfinfo utility. By using certain malformed input files, an attacker could cause the utility to crash,     leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2024-6239)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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-2024-5305 advisory.

    [20.11.0-12]
    - Fix crash in broken documents when using -dests
    - Fix versions in changelog
    - Resolves: RHEL-44330

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 Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:5305 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * poppler: pdfinfo: crash in broken documents when using -dests parameter (CVE-2024-6239)

    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.

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 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6915-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain malformed PDF. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2333-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-6239: Fixed crash when using pdfinfo with -dests parameter on malformed input files     (bsc#12269160).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2334-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-6239: Fixed crash when using pdfinfo with -dests parameter on malformed input files     (bsc#1226916).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 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-2024:2332-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-6239: Fixed crash when using pdfinfo with -dests parameter on malformed input files     (bsc#1226916).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-94068499c9 advisory.

    Backport fix for CVE-2024-6239.

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

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
209991	Amazon Linux 2023 : poppler, poppler-cpp, poppler-cpp-devel (ALAS2023-2024-741)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
205540	Oracle Linux 8 : poppler (ELSA-2024-5305)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
205512	RHEL 8 : poppler (RHSA-2024:5305)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
204662	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : poppler vulnerability (USN-6915-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
201997	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2024:2333-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
201995	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2024:2334-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
201994	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2024:2332-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
201164	Fedora 40 : mingw-poppler (2024-94068499c9)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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