RHEL 4 : xpdf (RHSA-2005:670)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19410

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for xpdf.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2005:670 advisory.

The xpdf package is an X Window System-based viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

A flaw was discovered in Xpdf in that an attacker could construct a carefully crafted PDF file that would cause Xpdf to consume all available disk space in /tmp when opened. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CAN-2005-2097 to this issue.

Note this issue does not affect the version of Xpdf in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 or 2.1.

Users of xpdf should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to resolve this issue.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL xpdf package based on the guidance in RHSA-2005:670.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19410

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-670.nasl

Version: 1.26

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/10/2005

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2005-2097

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xpdf

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/9/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/16/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2097

RHSA: 2005:670

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