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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : qpdf (SUSE-SU-2022:2669-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 163874

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2669-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2022-34503: Fixed a heap buffer overflow via the function QPDF::processXRefStream (bsc#1201830).
 - CVE-2021-36978: Fixed heap-based buffer overflow in Pl_ASCII85Decoder::write (bsc#1188514).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libqpdf18, qpdf and / or qpdf-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188514

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1201830

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-36978

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-34503

http://www.nessus.org/u?f4598823

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 163874

File Name: suse_SU-2022-2669-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/5/2022

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-36978

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-34503

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqpdf18, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qpdf, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qpdf-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/4/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/20/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-36978, CVE-2022-34503

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:2669-1