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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : poppler vulnerability (USN-603-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 32028
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
It was discovered that the poppler PDF library did not correctly handle certain malformed embedded fonts. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a malicious PDF, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.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.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 32028
File Name: ubuntu_USN-603-1.nasl
Version: 1.15
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 4/22/2008
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: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-qt4-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-qt2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-glib2, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:poppler-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler1-glib, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-qt4-2, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-glib-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler1-qt4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler1-qt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-qt-dev
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release
Patch Publication Date: 4/17/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-1693