RHEL 8 : poppler and evince (RHSA-2021:1881)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149713

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1881 advisory.

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

The evince packages provide a simple multi-page document viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF), PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files, and, with additional back-ends, also the Device Independent File format (DVI) files.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: poppler (20.11.0). (BZ#1644423)

Security Fix(es):

* poppler: pdftohtml: access to uninitialized pointer could lead to DoS (CVE-2020-27778)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 149713

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-1881.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/19/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-27778

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-glib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-cpp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evince-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evince-nautilus, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-qt5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evince-libs, 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:evince-browser-plugin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evince, 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: 5/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/3/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-27778

CWE: 824

RHSA: 2021:1881

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