RHEL 8 : poppler (RHSA-2019:2713)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 128850

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for poppler.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2713 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc (CVE-2019-7310)

* poppler: heap-based buffer overflow in function ImageStream::getLine() in Stream.cc (CVE-2019-9200)

* poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in function PSOutputDev::checkPageSlice in PSOutputDev.cc (CVE-2019-10871)

* poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in JPXStream::init in JPEG2000Stream.cc (CVE-2019-12293)

* poppler: memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in GfxState.cc (CVE-2018-18897)

* poppler: NULL pointer dereference in the XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc (CVE-2018-20481)

* poppler: reachable Object::getString assertion in AnnotRichMedia class in Annot.c (CVE-2018-20551)

* poppler: reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in FileSpec class in FileSpec.cc (CVE-2018-20650)

* poppler: SIGABRT PDFDoc::setup class in PDFDoc.cc (CVE-2018-20662)

* poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in function downsample_row_box_filter in CairoRescaleBox.cc (CVE-2019-9631)

* poppler: stack consumption in function Dict::find() in Dict.cc (CVE-2019-9903)

* poppler: integer overflow in JPXStream::init function leading to memory consumption (CVE-2019-9959)

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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL poppler package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:2713.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 128850

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2713.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/16/2019

Updated: 11/6/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9631

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-glib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-qt5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-cpp-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-cpp, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-qt5-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/2/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18897, CVE-2018-20481, CVE-2018-20551, CVE-2018-20650, CVE-2018-20662, CVE-2019-10871, CVE-2019-12293, CVE-2019-7310, CVE-2019-9200, CVE-2019-9631, CVE-2019-9903, CVE-2019-9959

CWE: 122, 125, 190, 400, 476, 617

RHSA: 2019:2713

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