The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6915-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain malformed PDF. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service.

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2333-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-6239: Fixed crash when using pdfinfo with -dests parameter on malformed input files     (bsc#12269160).

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-94068499c9 advisory.

    Backport fix for CVE-2024-6239.

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2024:9167 advisory.

    * poppler: pdfinfo: crash in broken documents when using -dests parameter (CVE-2024-6239)

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.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2332-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-6239: Fixed crash when using pdfinfo with -dests parameter on malformed input files     (bsc#1226916).

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:9167 advisory.

    Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF) rendering library, used by applications such as Evince.

    Security Fix(es):

    * poppler: pdfinfo: crash in broken documents when using -dests parameter (CVE-2024-6239)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-9167 advisory.

    [21.01.0-21]
    - Fix crash in broken documents when using -dests
    - Resolves: RHEL-44333

    [21.01.0-20]
    - Fix a crash during signing
    - Resolves: RHEL-31934

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A flaw was found in the Poppler's Pdfinfo utility. This issue occurs when using -dests parameter with     pdfinfo utility. By using certain malformed input files, an attacker could cause the utility to crash,     leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2024-6239)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:5305 advisory.

    Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF) rendering library, used by applications such as Evince.

    Security Fix(es):

    * poppler: pdfinfo: crash in broken documents when using -dests parameter (CVE-2024-6239)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-741 advisory.

    A flaw was found in the Poppler's Pdfinfo utility. This issue occurs when using -dests parameter with     pdfinfo utility. By using certain malformed input files, an attacker could cause the utility to crash,     leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2024-6239)

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-5305 advisory.

    [20.11.0-12]
    - Fix crash in broken documents when using -dests
    - Fix versions in changelog
    - Resolves: RHEL-44330

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2334-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-6239: Fixed crash when using pdfinfo with -dests parameter on malformed input files     (bsc#1226916).

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
204662	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : poppler vulnerability (USN-6915-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	7/24/2024	8/27/2024	high
201997	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2024:2333-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	7/9/2024	1/17/2025	high
201164	Fedora 40 : mingw-poppler (2024-94068499c9)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	6/30/2024	1/17/2025	high
232861	RockyLinux 9 : poppler (RLSA-2024:9167)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	3/19/2025	3/19/2025	high
201994	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2024:2332-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	7/9/2024	1/17/2025	high
210819	RHEL 9 : poppler (RHSA-2024:9167)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	11/12/2024	11/12/2024	high
211535	Oracle Linux 9 : poppler (ELSA-2024-9167)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	11/19/2024	1/17/2025	high
230841	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-6239	Nessus	Misc.	3/6/2025	3/6/2025	high
205512	RHEL 8 : poppler (RHSA-2024:5305)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	8/14/2024	3/28/2025	high
209991	Amazon Linux 2023 : poppler, poppler-cpp, poppler-cpp-devel (ALAS2023-2024-741)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	10/31/2024	1/17/2025	high
205540	Oracle Linux 8 : poppler (ELSA-2024-5305)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	8/14/2024	1/17/2025	high
201995	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2024:2334-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	7/9/2024	1/17/2025	high

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