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openSUSE 15.4: 2023:3983-1 Important: Poppler DoS Security Fixes

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Calendar Grey October 5, 2023
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest poppler update resolves several vulnerabilities, notably addressing denial of service threats and mitigating uncontrolled recursion in the handling of PDF files.
This update for poppler fixes the following issues: CVE-2020-23804: Fixed uncontrolled recursion in pdfinfo and pdftops (bsc#1215422).

Description

This update for poppler fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2020-23804: Fixed uncontrolled recursion in pdfinfo and pdftops

(bsc#1215422).

* CVE-2020-36024: Fixed NULL Pointer Deference in `FoFiType1C:convertToType1`

(bsc#1214257).

* CVE-2022-37050: Fixed denial-of-service via savePageAs in PDFDoc.c

(bsc#1214622).

* CVE-2022-37051: Fixed abort in main() in pdfunite.cc (bsc#1214621).

* CVE-2022-38349: Fixed reachable assertion in Object.h that will lead to

denial of service (bsc#1214618).

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Topics Covered

security advisory update DoS important poppler pdf handling openSUSE

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2023-3983=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 LTSS 15-SP1

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP1-LTSS-2023-3983=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 LTSS 15-SP1

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP1-LTSS-2023-3983=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP1-2023-3983=1

* SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0

To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform 'skuba' tool. It will inform

you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete

cluster in a controlled way.

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* libpoppler73-debuginfo-0.62.0-150000.4.25.2

* libpoppler73-0.62.0-150000.4.25.2

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)

* libpoppler73-32bit-0.62.0-150000.4.25.2

* libpoppler73-32bit-debuginfo-0.62.0-150000.4.25.2

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 LTSS 15-SP1 (aarch64

x86_64)

* libpoppler-devel-0.62.0-150000.4.25.2

* libpoppler-glib8-0.62.0-150000.4.25.2

* libpoppler73-debuginfo-0.62.0-150000.4.25.2

* libpoppler-cpp0-debuginfo-0.62.0-150000.4.25.2

* poppler-tools-0.62.0-150000.4.25.2

* libpoppler-glib-devel-0.62.0-150000.4.25.2

* libpoppler73-0.62.0-150000.4.25.2

* poppler-tools-debuginfo-0.62.0-150000.4.25.2

* typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18-0.62.0-150000.4.25.2

* libpoppler-glib8-debuginfo-0.62.0-150000.4.25.2

* poppler-debugsource-0.62.0-150000.4.25.2

* libpoppler-cpp0-0.62.0-150000.4.25.2

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 LTSS 15-SP1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x

x86_64)

* libpoppler-devel-0.62.0-150000.4.25.2

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* #1214257

* #1214618

* #1214621

* #1214622

* #1215422

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-23804.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-36024.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-37050.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-37051.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-38349.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214257

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214618

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214621

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214622

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215422

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:3983-1
Rating: important

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