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SUSE: 2023:4940-2 critical: LibXYZ buffer overflow and validation fixes

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Calendar Grey December 21, 2023
Dist Suse Esm H88
Recent updates for Poppler on SUSE have introduced critical security enhancements to improve PDF handling and mitigate vulnerabilities like buffer overflows and use-after-free issues
* bsc#1041783 * bsc#1120956 Cross-References: * CVE-2017-7511

Summary

## This update for poppler fixes the following issues: * CVE-2017-7511: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in pdfunite (bsc#1041783) * 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: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP5-2023-4941=1 ## Package List: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64) * libpoppler44-debuginfo-0.24.4-14.44.1 * libpoppler44-0.24.4-14.44.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate DoS SUSE pointer issue Poppler

References

* bsc#1041783

* bsc#1120956

Cross-

* CVE-2017-7511

* CVE-2018-20662

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2017-7511 ( SUSE ): 3.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

* CVE-2017-7511 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* 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:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5

An update that solves two vulnerabilities can now be installed.

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:4941-1
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate DoS SUSE pointer issue Poppler

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