Executive Summary

Summary
Title Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201401-21 First vendor Publication 2014-01-21
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-01-21
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

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Poppler, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

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

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Poppler. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF in an application linked against Poppler, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.

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-0.24.5"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2013-4473 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4473
[ 2 ] CVE-2013-4474 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4474
[ 3 ] CVE-2013-7296 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-7296

Availability

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

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-21.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-21.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
67 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
33 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 124
Os 3

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-08-30 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1074.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-03 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-2958-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-101.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-22 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201401-21.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-06 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-0156.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-11-22 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-272.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-11-18 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-20410.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-11-11 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-20443.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:38:04
  • Multiple Updates
2014-01-26 13:21:59
  • Multiple Updates
2014-01-21 21:19:41
  • First insertion