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Amazon Linux 2 : poppler (ALAS-2023-2243)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 181131

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of poppler installed on the remote host is prior to 0.26.5-43. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2243 advisory.

 - Buffer Overflow vulnerability in HtmlOutputDev::page in poppler 0.75.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-18839)

 - In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of CVE-2018-20662. (CVE-2022-37050)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update poppler' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2023-2243.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-18839.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-37050.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 181131

File Name: al2_ALAS-2023-2243.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/8/2023

Updated: 7/12/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-37050

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:amazon:linux:poppler-cpp-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-demos, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-cpp, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-glib-devel, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-utils, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-qt, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-qt-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-glib, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/31/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-18839, CVE-2022-37050

IAVB: 2023-B-0075-S