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openSUSE 15 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2023:4187-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 183855

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4187-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2019-13287: Fixed an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the function SplashXPath:strokeAdjust.
 (bsc#1140745)
 - CVE-2018-18456: Fixed a stack-based buffer over-read via a crafted pdf file. (bsc#1112428)
 - CVE-2018-18454: Fixed heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted pdf file. (bsc#1112424)
 - CVE-2020-36023: Fixed a stack bugger overflow in FoFiType1C:cvtGlyph. (bsc#1214256)

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 libpoppler73 and / or libpoppler73-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1112424

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1112428

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1140745

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1214256

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18454

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18456

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-13287

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-36023

http://www.nessus.org/u?ee8fd499

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 183855

File Name: suse_SU-2023-4187-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/25/2023

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, 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:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-13287

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 10/24/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/18/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18454, CVE-2018-18456, CVE-2019-13287, CVE-2020-36023

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:4187-1