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Debian DLA-1116-1 : poppler security update
high Nessus Plugin ID 103519
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Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security update.Description
It was discovered that poppler, a PDF rendering library, was affected by several denial of service (application crash), NULL pointer dereferences and memory corruption bugs :CVE-2017-14517 NULL pointer Dereference in the XRef::parseEntry() function in XRef.cc
CVE-2017-14519 Memory corruption occurs in a call to Object::streamGetChar that may lead to a denial of service or other unspecified impact.
CVE-2017-14617 Potential buffer overflow in the ImageStream class in Stream.cc, which may lead to a denial of service or other unspecified impact.
For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.18.4-6+deb7u3.
We recommend that you upgrade your poppler packages.
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/2017/09/msg00033.html
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 103519
File Name: debian_DLA-1116.nasl
Version: 3.7
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 9/28/2017
Updated: 11/19/2025
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-14617
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 7
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:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpoppler19, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:poppler-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpoppler-qt4-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpoppler-cpp0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpoppler-private-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpoppler-qt4-3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:poppler-utils, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpoppler-cpp-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpoppler-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpoppler-glib-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-poppler-0.18, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpoppler-glib8
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 9/27/2017