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Rocky Linux 8 : poppler and evince (RLSA-2021:1881)

high Nessus Plugin ID 184946

Synopsis

The remote Rocky Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2021:1881 advisory.

 - A flaw was found in Poppler in the way certain PDF files were converted into HTML. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by providing a malicious PDF file that, when processed by the 'pdftohtml' program, would crash the application causing a denial of service. (CVE-2020-27778)

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.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:1881

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1889793

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1900712

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1919423

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 184946

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2021-1881.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 11/7/2023

Updated: 11/7/2023

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-27778

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:rocky:linux:poppler-debuginfo, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-qt5, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:evince-nautilus-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:evince-nautilus, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:evince-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:evince-libs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:evince-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-cpp, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-cpp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-glib-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-qt5-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:evince-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:evince, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-utils, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:evince-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-cpp-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:evince-browser-plugin, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:evince-browser-plugin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-qt5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-glib

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/3/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-27778