CentOS 5 : poppler (CESA-2008:0239)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 43683

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS 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 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1c8653cf

http://www.nessus.org/u?8fcfc133

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 43683

File Name: centos_RHSA-2008-0239.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/6/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:poppler-utils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:poppler, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:poppler-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/21/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/18/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1693

BID: 28830

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2008:0239