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AlmaLinux 9 : poppler (ALSA-2023:2259)

high Nessus Plugin ID 175610

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2023:2259 advisory.

 - Poppler prior to and including 22.08.0 contains an integer overflow in the JBIG2 decoder (JBIG2Stream::readTextRegionSeg() in JBIGStream.cc). Processing a specially crafted PDF file or JBIG2 image could lead to a crash or the execution of arbitrary code. This is similar to the vulnerability described by CVE-2022-38171 in Xpdf. (CVE-2022-38784)

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.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-2259.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 175610

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2023-2259.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 5/14/2023

Updated: 10/6/2023

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-38784

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:poppler-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:poppler-cpp-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:poppler-glib-devel, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:poppler-qt5, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:poppler-qt5-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:poppler-glib, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:poppler, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:poppler-utils, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:poppler-cpp, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/30/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-38784

CWE: 190

IAVB: 2022-B-0033-S, 2022-B-0039-S, 2022-B-0050-S