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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : poppler vulnerabilities (USN-3865-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 183637

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3865-1 advisory.

 - XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc in Poppler 0.72.0 mishandles unallocated XRef entries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted PDF document, when XRefEntry::setFlag in XRef.h is called from Parser::makeStream in Parser.cc. (CVE-2018-20481)

 - A reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in Poppler 0.72.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to the lack of a check for the dict data type, as demonstrated by use of the FileSpec class (in FileSpec.cc) in pdfdetach. (CVE-2018-20650)

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 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3865-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 183637

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3865-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/21/2023

Updated: 10/21/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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-2018-20650

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: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler73, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:poppler-utils, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gir1.2-poppler-0.18, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-cpp-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-cpp0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-cpp0v5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-glib-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-glib8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-private-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-qt4-4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-qt4-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-qt5-1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-qt5-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler44, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler58

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/22/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/25/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-20481, CVE-2018-20650

USN: 3865-1