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RHEL 6 : poppler (RHSA-2010:0859)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 50631
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.Description
Updated poppler packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.
Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF) rendering library, used by applications such as Evince.
Two uninitialized pointer use flaws were discovered in poppler. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that, when opened, would cause applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2010-3702, CVE-2010-3703)
An array index error was found in the way poppler parsed PostScript Type 1 fonts embedded in PDF documents. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that, when opened, would cause applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2010-3704)
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3702
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3703
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 50631
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2010-0859.nasl
Version: 1.19
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 11/18/2010
Updated: 1/14/2021
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
Temporal Score: 5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-glib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-qt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-qt-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-qt4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-qt4-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-utils, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-debuginfo
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: 11/10/2010
Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/5/2010
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2010-3702, CVE-2010-3703, CVE-2010-3704
RHSA: 2010:0859