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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : podofo (SUSE-SU-2022:1690-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 161227

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLED_SAP12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:1690-1 advisory.

 - The PoDoFo::PdfVariant::DelayedLoad function in PdfVariant.h in PoDoFo 0.9.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted file, because of ImageExtractor.cpp.
 (CVE-2019-20093)

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 libpodofo-devel and / or libpodofo0_9_2 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1159921

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-20093

http://www.nessus.org/u?9d92ed68

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 161227

File Name: suse_SU-2022-1690-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/17/2022

Updated: 7/13/2023

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: 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-2019-20093

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpodofo0_9_2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpodofo-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/16/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/30/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-20093

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:1690-1