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Poppler < 0.70.0 Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2018-19149)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119685

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Synopsis

A package installed on the remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

The version of Poppler installed on the remote host is prior to 0.70.0. It is, therefore, affected by a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in _poppler_attachment_new when called from poppler_annot_file_attachment_get_attachment due to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker can exploit this issue to cause an application that uses poppler to render PDFs to stop responding.

Solution

Upgrade to Poppler version 0.70.0 or later.

See Also

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/664

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119685

File Name: poppler_0_70.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 12/14/2018

Updated: 10/25/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-19149

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:freedesktop:poppler

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/22/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/8/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-19149

BID: 106031