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Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0121: poppler (ALINUX3-SA-2024:0121)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 236237

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2024:0121 advisory.

 Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

 CVE-2020-36024:
 An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler version 20.12.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) via crafted .pdf file to FoFiType1C::convertToType1 function.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux 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

http://mirrors.aliyun.com/alinux/3/cve/alinux3-sa-20240121.xml

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 236237

File Name: alinux3_sa_2024-0121.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: 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:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:poppler, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:poppler-utils-debuginfo, cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:poppler-glib, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:poppler-glib-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:poppler-cpp-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:poppler-cpp, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:poppler-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:poppler-doc, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:poppler-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:poppler-qt5-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:poppler-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:poppler-cpp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:poppler-glib-doc, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:poppler-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:poppler-utils, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:poppler-qt5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:poppler-qt5

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/19/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-36024