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Amazon Linux 2 : poppler (ALAS-2020-1541)

high Nessus Plugin ID 141955

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of poppler installed on the remote host is prior to 0.26.5-43. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2020-1541 advisory.

 A divide-by-zero error was found in the way Poppler handled certain PDF files. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by providing a malicious PDF file that, when processed by an application linked to Poppler, would crash the application causing a denial of service. (CVE-2019-14494)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update poppler' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2020-1541.html

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14494

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 141955

File Name: al2_ALAS-2020-1541.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/28/2020

Updated: 12/11/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, 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-2019-14494

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-cpp-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-demos, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-cpp, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-glib-devel, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-utils, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-qt, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-qt-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-glib, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/22/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/1/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14494

ALAS: 2020-1541