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Poppler <= 0.72.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 120946

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Synopsis

A package installed on the remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

The version of Poppler installed on the remote host is prior or equal to 0.72.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple denial of service (DoS) vulnerabilities in both XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc due to a NULL pointer dereference and in PDFDoc::setup in PDFDoc.cc. A local attacker can exploit this issue to cause an application that uses poppler to render PDFs to stop responding.

Solution

Upgrade to a patched version of Poppler once it is available.

See Also

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/692

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/706

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 120946

File Name: poppler_0_72.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 6/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-20662

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:freedesktop:poppler

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/25/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/25/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-20481, CVE-2018-20662

BID: 106321