Executive Summary

Summary
Title Poppler: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Informations
Name GLSA-200807-04 First vendor Publication 2008-07-08
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2008-07-08
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Poppler is affected by a memory management issue, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Poppler is a cross-platform PDF rendering library originally based on Xpdf.

Description

Felipe Andres Manzano reported a memory management issue in the Page class constructor/destructor.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF file with a Poppler-based PDF viewer such as Gentoo's Xpdf, Epdfview, or Evince, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All poppler users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/poppler-0.6.3-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-2950 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2950

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-04.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-04.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-94 Failure to Control Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17647
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17647
Title: USN-631-1 -- poppler vulnerability
Description: Felipe Andres Manzano discovered that poppler did not correctly initialize certain page widgets.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-631-1
CVE-2008-2950
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 8.04
 Product(s): poppler
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 36

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-06-30 Name : Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-6982 (poppler)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_6982.nasl
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for poppler MDVSA-2008:146 (poppler)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2008_146.nasl
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for poppler vulnerability USN-631-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_631_1.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for poppler FEDORA-2008-7012
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_7012_poppler_fc9.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for poppler FEDORA-2008-7104
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_7104_poppler_fc8.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200807-04 (poppler)
File : nvt/glsa_200807_04.nasl
2008-09-04 Name : FreeBSD Ports: poppler
File : nvt/freebsd_poppler.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
46806 Poppler libpoppler Page.cc Page Destructor pageWidgets Object Handling Uninit...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_libpoppler-devel-080703.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2008-146.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-09-12 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-7012.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-08-08 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-7104.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-07-29 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-631-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-07-10 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_bc20510f4dd411dd93e70211d880e350.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-07-10 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200807-04.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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