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Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : xpdf/cupsys/tetex-bin/kdegraphics/koffice vulnerabilities (USN-227-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20770

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

infamous41md discovered several integer overflows in the XPDF code, which is present in xpdf, the Poppler library, tetex-bin, KOffice, and kpdf. By tricking an user into opening a specially crafted PDF file, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the application that processes the document.

The CUPS printing system also uses XPDF code to convert PDF files to PostScript. By attempting to print such a crafted PDF file, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the printer server (user 'cupsys').

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20770

File Name: ubuntu_USN-227-1.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/21/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler0c2-qt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cupsys, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kcoloredit, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cupsys-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:koffice-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkscan-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdegraphics, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kivio-data, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kiconedit, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kghostview, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kpovmodeler, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:karbon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cupsys-bsd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdegraphics-doc-html, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ksvg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:koshell, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kviewshell, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-glib-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdegraphics-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kuickshow, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-qt-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsys2-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xpdf-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler0c2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:koffice-data, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdegraphics-kfile-plugins, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xpdf, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kgamma, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkpathsea3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:koffice-doc-html, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsys2-gnutls10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kformula, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:koffice-libs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:krita, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kthesaurus, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kugar, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kchart, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ksnapshot, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kpdf, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler0c2-glib, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kfax, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkpathsea-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kivio, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kruler, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kspread, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kamera, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:koffice, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kooka, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xpdf-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdvi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kview, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:poppler-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kword, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kmrml, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsimage2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kolourpaint, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkscan1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcupsimage2-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kpresenter, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tetex-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xpdf-reader

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/12/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-3191, CVE-2005-3192, CVE-2005-3193

BID: 15721, 15725, 15726, 15727

USN: 227-1