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Amazon Linux 2023 : poppler, poppler-cpp, poppler-cpp-devel (ALAS2023-2023-340)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 181165

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2023 host is missing a security update.

Description

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-340 advisory.

 - An issue was discovered in Poppler 22.08.0. There is a reachable assertion in Object.h, will lead to denial of service because PDFDoc::replacePageDict in PDFDoc.cc lacks a stream check before saving an embedded file. (CVE-2022-38349)

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

Solution

Run 'dnf update poppler --releasever 2023.1.20230906' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2023-340.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-38349.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 181165

File Name: al2023_ALAS2023-2023-340.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/8/2023

Updated: 10/6/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-38349

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2023, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-cpp-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-glib, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-utils, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-cpp, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-glib-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-cpp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-glib-doc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-glib-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/31/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-38349

IAVB: 2023-B-0075