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SUSE Security Advisory 2023:4942-1 - Moderate Poppler DoS Issue

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Calendar Grey December 21, 2023
Dist Suse Esm H88
Major update rolled out to address DoS risk in Poppler for openSUSE. Follow best practices to ensure system security.
* 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: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP5-2023-4942=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2023-4942=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2023-4942=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update DoS attack moderate severity SUSE Linux poppler

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:

* 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 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

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:4942-1
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update DoS attack moderate severity SUSE Linux poppler

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