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EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : qpdf (EulerOS-SA-2020-1030)

low Nessus Plugin ID 132623

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the qpdf package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - In QPDF 8.2.1, in libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc, QPDFWriter::unparseObject and QPDFWriter::unparseChild have recursive calls for a long time, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF file.(CVE-2018-18020)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected qpdf package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c7548b1b

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 132623

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-1030.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 1/2/2020

Updated: 4/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

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-2018-18020

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:qpdf-libs, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18020