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Debian DSA-1480-1 : poppler - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 30188

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Alin Rad Pop discovered several buffer overflows in the Poppler PDF library, which could allow the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed PDF file is opened.

Solution

Upgrade the poppler packages.

The old stable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain poppler.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 0.4.5-5.1etch2.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1480

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 30188

File Name: debian_DSA-1480.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/6/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:poppler, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/5/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4352, CVE-2007-5392, CVE-2007-5393

CWE: 119

DSA: 1480