EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : qpdf (EulerOS-SA-2019-2655)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 132190

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

According to the versions of the qpdf package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

- An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. Endless recursion causes stack exhaustion in QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral() in QPDFTokenizer.cc, related to the QPDF::resolve function in QPDF.cc.(CVE-2015-9252)

- An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. There is an infinite loop due to looping xref tables in QPDF.cc.(CVE-2017-18186)

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

Solution

Update the affected qpdf packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5290a0fd

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 132190

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-2655.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 12/18/2019

Updated: 4/3/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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-2017-18186

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:qpdf-libs, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/18/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-9252, CVE-2017-18186