Fedora Core 4 : poppler-0.4.1-1.2 (2005-1132)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 20291

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

An attacker could construct a carefully crafted PDF file that could cause Xpdf to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected poppler, poppler-debuginfo and / or poppler-devel packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?78146e1f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 20291

File Name: fedora_2005-1132.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/11/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:poppler, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:poppler-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:poppler-devel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 12/8/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-3193

FEDORA: 2005-1132