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Oracle Linux 8 : poppler (ELSA-2024-2979)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 198001

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-2979 advisory.

 - Fix crash when Object has negative number (CVE-2018-13988)
 - Fix infinite recursion (CVE-2017-18267)
 - Resolves: rhbz#1494583 CVE-2017-14520
 - Resolves: rhbz#1459067 CVE-2017-7515 CVE-2017-9775 CVE-2017-9776 CVE-2017-9865
 - Resolves: rhbz#1456828 CVE-2017-7511 Null pointer deference
 - Remove CVE-2010-3702, 3703 and 3704 patches (they are already in 0.15.1)
 - Add poppler-0.15.0-CVE-2010-3702.patch (Properly initialize parser)
 - Add poppler-0.15.0-CVE-2010-3703.patch (Properly initialize stack)
 - Add poppler-0.15.0-CVE-2010-3704.patch (Fix crash in broken pdf (code < 0))
 - CVE-2009-3607 poppler: create_surface_from_thumbnail_data integer overflow (#526924)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-2979.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 198001

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-2979.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/28/2024

Updated: 11/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, 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-2020-36024

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: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:poppler-glib-devel, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8:10:appstream_base, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:poppler-glib, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::codeready_builder, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:poppler-glib-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:poppler-cpp-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:poppler-cpp, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:poppler-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:poppler-qt5-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:poppler-utils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:poppler-qt5, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::appstream, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:poppler

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/23/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-36024