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RockyLinux 8 : poppler (RLSA-2024:2979)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 235544

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2024:2979 advisory.

 * poppler: NULL pointer dereference in `FoFiType1C::convertToType1` (CVE-2020-36024)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux security advisory.

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://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:2979

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2231520

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 235544

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2024-2979.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/7/2025

Updated: 5/7/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, 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-2020-36024

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:rocky:linux:poppler-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-utils, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-glib-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-qt5-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-cpp-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-devel, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-glib, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-cpp, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-qt5, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-cpp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-glib-doc, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:poppler-qt5-debuginfo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-36024