SuSE 10 Security Update : poppler (ZYPP Patch Number 8523)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65785

Synopsis

The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

This update of poppler fixes the following vulnerabilities :

- Various invalid memory issues could be used by attackers supplying PDFs to crash the PDF viewer or potentially execute code. (CVE-2013-1788)

- A crash in poppler could be used by attackers providing PDFs to crash the PDF viewer. (CVE-2013-1789)

- An uninitialized memory read could be used by attackers providing PDFs to crash the PDF viewer. (CVE-2013-1790)

This also fixes that transparent background in images are rendered black with evince. (bnc#745620).

Solution

Apply ZYPP patch number 8523.

See Also

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1788.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1789.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1790.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65785

File Name: suse_poppler-8523.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/3/2013

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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: cpe:/o:suse:suse_linux

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1788, CVE-2013-1789, CVE-2013-1790