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CentOS Update for poppler CESA-2017:2550 centos6

🗓️ 01 Sep 2017 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AGType 
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Update for poppler CESA-2017:2550 CentOS 6. Fix for integer overflow leading to heap-based buffer overflow

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882764");
  script_version("2026-04-24T06:23:04+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-04-24 06:23:04 +0000 (Fri, 24 Apr 2026)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-09-01 06:53:46 +0200 (Fri, 01 Sep 2017)");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-9776");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-03-12 17:27:00 +0000 (Tue, 12 Mar 2019)");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
  script_name("CentOS Update for poppler CESA-2017:2550 centos6");
  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Check the version of poppler");
  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF)
rendering library, used by applications such as Evince.

Security Fix(es):

  * An integer overflow leading to heap-based buffer overflow was found in
the poppler library. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that
would cause applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash, or
potentially execute arbitrary code when opened. (CVE-2017-9776)");
  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"poppler on CentOS 6");
  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please Install the Updated Packages.");

  script_xref(name:"CESA", value:"2017:2550");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2017-August/022527.html");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("CentOS Local Security Checks");
  script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/centos", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=CentOS6");
  exit(0);
}

include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");

release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
  exit(0);

res = "";

if(release == "CentOS6")
{

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"poppler", rpm:"poppler~0.12.4~12.el6_9", rls:"CentOS6")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"poppler-devel", rpm:"poppler-devel~0.12.4~12.el6_9", rls:"CentOS6")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"poppler-glib", rpm:"poppler-glib~0.12.4~12.el6_9", rls:"CentOS6")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"poppler-glib-devel", rpm:"poppler-glib-devel~0.12.4~12.el6_9", rls:"CentOS6")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"poppler-qt", rpm:"poppler-qt~0.12.4~12.el6_9", rls:"CentOS6")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"poppler-qt4", rpm:"poppler-qt4~0.12.4~12.el6_9", rls:"CentOS6")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"poppler-qt4-devel", rpm:"poppler-qt4-devel~0.12.4~12.el6_9", rls:"CentOS6")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"poppler-qt-devel", rpm:"poppler-qt-devel~0.12.4~12.el6_9", rls:"CentOS6")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"poppler-utils", rpm:"poppler-utils~0.12.4~12.el6_9", rls:"CentOS6")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if (__pkg_match) exit(99);
  exit(0);
}

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Vulners AI Score6.5
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