SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : podofo (SUSE-SU-2024:3541-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 208427

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLED_SAP12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3541-1 advisory.

- CVE-2015-8981: Fixed heap overflow in the function ReadXRefSubsection (bsc#1023190)
- CVE-2017-6840: Fixed invalid memory read in ColorChanger::GetColorFromStack (colorchanger.cpp) (bsc#1027787)
- CVE-2017-6841: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in GraphicsStack::TGraphicsStackElement::~TGraphicsStackElement (graphicsstack.h) (bsc#1027786)
- CVE-2017-6842: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in ColorChanger::GetColorFromStack (colorchanger.cpp) (bsc#1027785)
- CVE-2017-6845: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in GraphicsStack::TGraphicsStackElement::SetNonStrokingColorSpace (graphicsstack.h) (bsc#1027779)
- CVE-2017-6849: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in PoDoFo::PdfColorGray::~PdfColorGray (PdfColor.cpp) (bsc#1027776)
- CVE-2017-8378: Fixed denial of service (application crash) vectors related to m_offsets.size (PdfParser::ReadObjects func in base/PdfParser.cpp) (bsc#1037000)
- CVE-2018-5308: Fixed Undefined behavior (memcpy with NULL pointer) in PdfMemoryOutputStream::Write (src/base/PdfOutputStream.cpp) (bsc#1075772)
- CVE-2019-10723: Fixed Memory leak in PdfPagesTreeCache class in doc/PdfPagesTreeCache.cpp (bsc#1131544)
- CVE-2019-9199: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in function PoDoFo:Impose:PdfTranslator:setSource() in pdftranslator.cpp (bsc#1127855)

- Fixed NULL pointer dereference in PdfInfo::GuessFormat (pdfinfo.cpp) (bsc#1023072)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 affected libpodofo-devel and / or libpodofo0_9_2 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 208427

File Name: suse_SU-2024-3541-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/9/2024

Updated: 10/9/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-8378

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpodofo0_9_2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpodofo-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/1/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8981, CVE-2017-5854, CVE-2017-6840, CVE-2017-6841, CVE-2017-6842, CVE-2017-6845, CVE-2017-6849, CVE-2017-8378, CVE-2018-5308, CVE-2019-10723, CVE-2019-9199

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:3541-1

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