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RHEL 8 : poppler (RHSA-2022:7594)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 167151

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for poppler.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:7594 advisory.

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

 Security Fix(es):

 * poppler: A logic error in the Hints::Hints function can cause denial of service (CVE-2022-27337)

 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 8.7 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 RHEL poppler package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:7594.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?790bc9ea

http://www.nessus.org/u?fe252905

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7594

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2087190

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2096452

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 167151

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-7594.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/9/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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-2022-27337

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

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, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-qt5, 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:poppler-cpp, 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: 11/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-27337

CWE: 1173

RHSA: 2022:7594