RHEL 8 : poppler (RHSA-2024:5305)

high Nessus Plugin ID 205512

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:5305 advisory.

Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF) rendering library, used by applications such as Evince.

Security Fix(es):

* poppler: pdfinfo: crash in broken documents when using -dests parameter (CVE-2024-6239)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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 poppler package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:5305.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293594

http://www.nessus.org/u?3a4b86b1

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5305

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 205512

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-5305.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/14/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-6239

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-glib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-qt5, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-cpp-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-glib-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-cpp, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-qt5-devel

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: 8/13/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/21/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-6239

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2024:5305