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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : qpdf (SUSE-SU-2022:2669-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 163874

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2669-1 advisory.

 - QPDF 9.x through 9.1.1 and 10.x through 10.0.4 has a heap-based buffer overflow in Pl_ASCII85Decoder::write (called from Pl_AES_PDF::flush and Pl_AES_PDF::finish) when a certain downstream write fails. (CVE-2021-36978)

 - QPDF v8.4.2 was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow via the function QPDF::processXRefStream.
 This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted PDF file.
 (CVE-2022-34503)

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 affected libqpdf18, qpdf and / or qpdf-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188514

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1201830

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-36978

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-34503

http://www.nessus.org/u?f4598823

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 163874

File Name: suse_SU-2022-2669-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/5/2022

Updated: 7/14/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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-2021-36978

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-34503

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqpdf18, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qpdf, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qpdf-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: 8/4/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/20/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-36978, CVE-2022-34503

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:2669-1