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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : qpdf (SUSE-SU-2022:3248-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 164979

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3248-1 advisory.

 - 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libqpdf26, qpdf and / or qpdf-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188514

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?a6ec822f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 164979

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3248-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/13/2022

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

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-2021-36978

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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qpdf, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qpdf-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqpdf26

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/12/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/20/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-36978

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3248-1