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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2023:4291-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 184106

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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-2023:4291-1 advisory.

 - A vulnerability in Outline.cc for Poppler prior to 23.06.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) (crash) via a crafted PDF file in OutlineItem::open. (CVE-2023-34872)

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1213888

http://www.nessus.org/u?a18e7516

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-34872

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 184106

File Name: suse_SU-2023-4291-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/1/2023

Updated: 11/1/2023

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: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-34872

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpoppler-cpp0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpoppler-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpoppler-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpoppler-glib8, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpoppler126, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:poppler-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-poppler-0_18, 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: 10/31/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-34872

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:4291-1