Amazon Linux AMI : poppler (ALAS-2023-1852)

high Nessus Plugin ID 182718

Synopsis

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

Description

The version of poppler installed on the remote host is prior to 0.26.5-43.27. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1852 advisory.

- Uncontrolled Recursion in pdfinfo, and pdftops in poppler 0.89.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted input. (CVE-2020-23804)

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

Solution

Run 'yum update poppler' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2023-1852.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-23804.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 182718

File Name: ala_ALAS-2023-1852.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/6/2023

Updated: 10/9/2023

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-2020-23804

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: 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, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-cpp, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:poppler-utils, cpe:/o:amazon:linux, 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: 9/27/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-23804