openSUSE Security Update : poppler (openSUSE-SU-2013:1371-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 75126

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

poppler was updated to fix a security problem. PDF files could emit messages with terminal escape sequences which could be used to inject shell code if the user ran a PDF viewer from a terminal shell (CVE-2012-2142).

Also a bug was fixed to avoid division by zero when using origpagesizes option (bnc#795582)

Solution

Update the affected poppler packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 75126

File Name: openSUSE-2013-662.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpoppler-cpp0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:poppler-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:typelib-1_0-poppler-0_18, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpoppler-glib8-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpoppler-cpp0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:poppler-tools, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpoppler-qt4-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpoppler-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:poppler-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:poppler-qt-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpoppler-glib8, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpoppler25, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpoppler-qt4-4-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpoppler-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpoppler25-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpoppler-qt4-4

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/14/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/9/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2142

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