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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM : PDFResurrect vulnerabilities (USN-5282-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 183165

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5282-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that PDFResurrect was incorrectly handling corrupted PDF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service, or arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-14267)

 It was discovered that PDFResurrect incorrectly handled memory when loading PDF pages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a heap buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service, or arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-14934)

 It was discovered that PDFResurrect was incorrectly validating header data in input PDF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a heap buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service, or arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-20740)

 Carter Yagemann discovered that PDFResurrect incorrectly handled certain memory operations during PDF summary generation. An attacker could use this to cause out-of-bounds writes, resulting in a denial of service (system crash) or arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-9549)

 It was discovered that PDFResurrect was incorrectly processing data when performing trailer search operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause an infinite loop, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2021-3508)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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 pdfresurrect package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5282-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 183165

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5282-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/16/2023

Updated: 8/29/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-9549

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: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pdfresurrect, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:esm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:esm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:esm

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/3/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14267, CVE-2019-14934, CVE-2020-20740, CVE-2020-9549, CVE-2021-3508

USN: 5282-1