Debian DLA-446-1 : poppler security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 90803

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the poppler library.
A maliciously crafted file could cause the application to crash. The issue happens when 'ExtGState' is not a valid blend mode.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/04/msg00001.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/poppler

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 90803

File Name: debian_DLA-446.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/2/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-poppler-0.18, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpoppler-cpp-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpoppler-cpp0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpoppler-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpoppler-glib-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpoppler-glib8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpoppler-private-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpoppler-qt4-3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpoppler-qt4-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpoppler19, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:poppler-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:poppler-utils, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/29/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8868