SUSE SLES12 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2023:4546-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 186252

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4546-1 advisory.

- CVE-2019-9545: Fixed a potential crash due to uncontrolled recursion in the JBIG parser (bsc#1128114).
- CVE-2019-9631: Fixed an out of bounds read when converting a PDF to an image (bsc#1129202).
- CVE-2022-37052: Fixed a reachable assertion when extracting pages of a PDf file (bsc#1214726).
- CVE-2020-36023: Fixed a stack bugger overflow in FoFiType1C:cvtGlyph (bsc#1214256).
- CVE-2019-14292: Fixed an out of bounds read in GfxState.cc (bsc#1143570).
- CVE-2022-48545: Fixed an infinite recursion in Catalog::findDestInTree which can cause denial of service (bsc#1214723).

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 libpoppler44 package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 186252

File Name: suse_SU-2023-4546-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/25/2023

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9631

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpoppler44

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: 11/24/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/1/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14292, CVE-2019-9545, CVE-2019-9631, CVE-2020-36023, CVE-2022-37052, CVE-2022-48545

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:4546-1

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