Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | poppler vulnerability |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | USN-631-1 | First vendor Publication | 2008-07-28 |
| Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2008-07-28 |
| 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: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
| A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 7.10 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 7.10: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Felipe Andres Manzano discovered that poppler did not correctly initialize certain page widgets. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious PDF file, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash applications linked against poppler, leading to a denial of service. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-631-1 |
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: | |||
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
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 |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2014-02-17 12:05:14 |
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