Fedora 8 : poppler-0.6.2-2.fc8 (2008-7104)

high Nessus Plugin ID 33847

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix: Add upstream patch for CVE-2008-2950 / oCERT-2008-007 - use of an uninitialized pointer to call free() in Page::~Page (#454277) http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-007.html

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected poppler package.

See Also

http://ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-007.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454277

http://www.nessus.org/u?31a04841

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 33847

File Name: fedora_2008-7104.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/8/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:poppler, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/7/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2950

BID: 30107

CWE: 94

FEDORA: 2008-7104