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Ubuntu 23.10 : QPDF vulnerability (USN-6713-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192532

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6713-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that QPDF incorrectly handled certain memory operations when decoding JSON files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted JSON file, QPDF could be made to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 affected libqpdf-dev, libqpdf29 and / or qpdf packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6713-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 192532

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6713-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/25/2024

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-24246

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qpdf, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqpdf29, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqpdf-dev

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/29/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-24246

USN: 6713-1