SUSE SLES15 Security Update : podofo (SUSE-SU-2026:4311-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 349610

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:4311-1 advisory.

- CVE-2018-8002: infinite loop vulnerability in ParseFileComplete() (bsc#1084891).
- CVE-2020-18971: stack-based buffer overflow in src/base/PdfDictionary.cpp (bsc#1190178).
- CVE-2021-30470: uncontrolled recursive call of funtions in src/base/PdfTokenizer.cpp can lead to a stack overflow (bsc#1186588).
- CVE-2021-30471: uncontrolled recursive call in PdfNamesTree:AddToDictionary function in src/podofo/doc/PdfNamesTree.cpp (bsc#1184645).

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 libpodofo0_9_6 package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 349610

File Name: suse_SU-2026-4311-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/24/2026

Updated: 9/24/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.29

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-8002

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpodofo0_9_6

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: 9/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/9/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-8002, CVE-2020-18971, CVE-2021-30470, CVE-2021-30471

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:4311-1

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