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Ubuntu 23.10 : QPDF vulnerability (USN-6713-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192532

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6713-1 advisory.

 - Heap Buffer Overflow vulnerability in qpdf 11.9.0 allows attackers to crash the application via the std::__shared_count() function at /bits/shared_ptr_base.h. (CVE-2024-24246)

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 libqpdf-dev, libqpdf29 and / or qpdf packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6713-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 192532

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6713-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/25/2024

Updated: 4/2/2024

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-2024-24246

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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqpdf-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqpdf29, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qpdf

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: 3/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/29/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-24246

USN: 6713-1