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Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : kdegraphics, koffice, xpdf, cupsys, poppler, tetex-bin vulnerabilities (USN-270-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 21234

Synopsis

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

Description

Derek Noonburg discovered several integer overflows in the XPDF code, which is present in xpdf, the Poppler library, and tetex-bin. 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: 21234

File Name: ubuntu_USN-270-1.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/17/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/13/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/1/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1244

USN: 270-1