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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2017:1998-1)
high Nessus Plugin ID 102069
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
This update for poppler fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed :- CVE-2017-9775: Fix a stack overflow bug in pdftocairo that could have been exploited in a denial of service attack through a specially crafted PDF document.
(bsc#1045719)
- CVE-2017-9776: Fix an integer overflow bug that could have been exploited in a denial of service attack through a specially crafted PDF document. (bsc#1045721)
- CVE-2017-9408: Fix a memory leak that occurred when the parser tried to recover from a broken input file.
(bsc#1042802)
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2017-1236=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2017-1236=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-1236=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2017-1236=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.
See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1042802
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045719
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045721
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9408/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9775/
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 102069
File Name: suse_SU-2017-1998-1.nasl
Version: 3.14
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 7/31/2017
Updated: 1/6/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 6.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpoppler44-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpoppler44
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 7/28/2017
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/2/2017