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openSUSE Leap 15.4: Security Alert on libpng Vulnerability Issue

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Calendar Grey December 14, 2023
Dist Suse Esm H88
Essential poppler security patch for openSUSE addresses DoS flaw CVE-2018-20662. Verify your system's protection.
* bsc#1120956 Cross-References: * CVE-2018-20662

Summary

## This update for poppler fixes the following issues: * CVE-2018-20662: PDFDoc setup in PDFDoc.cc allows attackers to cause DOS because of a wrong return value from PDFDoc:setup (bsc#1120956). ## 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-15.4-2023-4690=1 ## Package List: * openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64) * libpoppler73-debuginfo-0.62.0-150000.4.34.1 * libpoppler73-0.62.0-150000.4.34.1 * openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64) * libpoppler73-32bit-debuginfo-0.62.0-150000.4.34.1 * libpoppler73-32bit-0.62.0-150000.4.34.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate patch DoS threat poppler openSUSE

References

* bsc#1120956

Cross-

* CVE-2018-20662

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2018-20662 ( SUSE ): 3.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

* CVE-2018-20662 ( NVD ): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2018-20662 ( NVD ): 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products:

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

##

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20662.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1120956

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:4690-1
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate patch DoS threat poppler openSUSE

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