Debian DSA-2135-1 : xpdf - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 51397

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Joel Voss of Leviathan Security Group discovered two vulnerabilities in xpdf rendering engine, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed PDF file is opened.

Solution

Upgrade the poppler packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 3.02-1.4+lenny3.

For the upcoming stable distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems don't apply, since xpdf has been patched to use the Poppler PDF library.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2135

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 51397

File Name: debian_DSA-2135.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: 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: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xpdf, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/21/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3702, CVE-2010-3704

BID: 43841, 43845

DSA: 2135