RHEL 5 : poppler (RHSA-2008:0239)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 32021

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated poppler packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Poppler is a PDF rendering library, used by applications such as Evince.

Kees Cook discovered a flaw in the way poppler displayed malformed fonts embedded in PDF files. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause applications that use poppler -- such as Evince
-- to crash, or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when opened.
(CVE-2008-1693)

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve this issue.

Solution

Update the affected poppler, poppler-devel and / or poppler-utils packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-1693

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0239

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 32021

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2008-0239.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/22/2008

Updated: 1/14/2021

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-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: 4/17/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/18/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1693

BID: 28830

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2008:0239