Executive Summary

Summary
Title QPDF vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3638-1 First vendor Publication 2018-05-07
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-05-07
Severity (Vendor) N/A 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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 17.10 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in QPDF.

Software Description: - qpdf: tools for transforming and inspecting PDF files

Details:

It was discovered that QPDF incorrectly handled certain malformed files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause QPDF to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 17.10:
libqpdf21 8.0.2-3~17.10.1
qpdf 8.0.2-3~17.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libqpdf21 8.0.2-3~16.04.1
qpdf 8.0.2-3~16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libqpdf21 8.0.2-3~14.04.1
qpdf 8.0.2-3~14.04.1

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug fixes. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3638-1
CVE-2015-9252, CVE-2017-11624, CVE-2017-11625, CVE-2017-11626,
CVE-2017-11627, CVE-2017-12595, CVE-2017-18183, CVE-2017-18184,
CVE-2017-18185, CVE-2017-18186, CVE-2017-9208, CVE-2017-9209,
CVE-2017-9210, CVE-2018-9918

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qpdf/8.0.2-3~17.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qpdf/8.0.2-3~16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qpdf/8.0.2-3~14.04.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3638-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
40 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
20 % CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion
20 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
20 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3
Os 3

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-b4ef545db5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-01 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2018-f2e1c09437.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-21 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2017-a05e2b8545.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2017-191d7ec089.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-07 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-e58a762c3f.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-05-07 21:19:26
  • First insertion