An attacker could construct a carefully crafted PDF file that could cause Xpdf to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2005-1132.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(20291);
script_version("1.14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-3193");
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2005-1132");
script_name(english:"Fedora Core 4 : poppler-0.4.1-1.2 (2005-1132)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"An attacker could construct a carefully crafted PDF file that could
cause Xpdf to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
);
# https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2005-December/001638.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?78146e1f"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Update the affected poppler, poppler-debuginfo and / or poppler-devel
packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:poppler");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:poppler-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:poppler-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/12/08");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/12/11");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^4([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 4.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC4", reference:"poppler-0.4.1-1.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC4", reference:"poppler-debuginfo-0.4.1-1.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC4", reference:"poppler-devel-0.4.1-1.2")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "poppler / poppler-debuginfo / poppler-devel");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
fedoraproject | fedora | poppler | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:poppler |
fedoraproject | fedora | poppler-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:poppler-debuginfo |
fedoraproject | fedora | poppler-devel | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:poppler-devel |
fedoraproject | fedora_core | 4 | cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4 |