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RHEL 4 : xpdf (RHSA-2005:840)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20268

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for xpdf.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2005:840 advisory.

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

 Several flaws were discovered in Xpdf. An attacker could construct a carefully crafted PDF file that could cause Xpdf to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the names CVE-2005-3191, CVE-2005-3192, and CVE-2005-3193 to these issues.

 Users of Xpdf should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to resolve these issues.

 Red Hat would like to thank Derek B. Noonburg for reporting this issue and providing a patch.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL xpdf package based on the guidance in RHSA-2005:840.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?126042e8

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=173888

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:840

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20268

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-840.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/7/2005

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2005-3625

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: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3, 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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/20/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/6/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-3191, CVE-2005-3192, CVE-2005-3193, CVE-2005-3624, CVE-2005-3625, CVE-2005-3626, CVE-2005-3627, CVE-2005-3628

BID: 15721, 15725, 15726, 15727

RHSA: 2005:840