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Fedora 18 : xpdf-3.03-8.fc18 (2013-17375)

low Nessus Plugin ID 70236

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix icon issue in desktop file. Resolve CVE-2012-2142 poppler, xpdf:
Insufficient sanitization of escape sequences in the error messages

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 xpdf package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789936

http://www.nessus.org/u?fec3e92b

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 70236

File Name: fedora_2013-17375.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/1/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xpdf

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/22/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2142

FEDORA: 2013-17375