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RHEL 2.1 : xpdf (RHSA-2002:307)

high Nessus Plugin ID 12345

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

Updated Xpdf packages are available to fix a vulnerability where a malicious PDF document could run arbitrary code.

[Updated 06 Feb 2003] Added fixed packages for Advanced Workstation 2.1

Xpdf is an X Window System based viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

During an audit of CUPS, a printing system, Zen Parsec found an integer overflow vulnerability in the pdftops filter. Since the code for pdftops is taken from the Xpdf project, all versions of Xpdf including 2.01 are also vulnerable to this issue. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would execute arbitrary code as the user who used Xpdf to view it.

All users of Xpdf are advised to upgrade to these errata packages which contain a patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected xpdf package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2002-1384

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002:307

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 12345

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2002-307.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/6/2004

Updated: 1/14/2021

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xpdf

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 2/5/2003

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/2/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1384

RHSA: 2002:307