Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-1789 - Denial of Service vulnerability in Poppler
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
splash/Splash.cc in poppler before 0.22.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to the (1) Splash::arbitraryTransformMask, (2) Splash::blitMask, and (3) Splash::scaleMaskYuXu functions. Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html 'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference'
Vulnerable Configurations
Nessus
NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-1785-1.NASL description It was discovered that poppler contained multiple security issues when parsing malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 65787 published 2013-04-03 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2013-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/65787 title Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : poppler vulnerabilities (USN-1785-1) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1785-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See # <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered # trademark of Canonical, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(65787); script_version("1.9"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/19 12:54:29"); script_cve_id("CVE-2013-1788", "CVE-2013-1789", "CVE-2013-1790"); script_bugtraq_id(58198); script_xref(name:"USN", value:"1785-1"); script_name(english:"Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : poppler vulnerabilities (USN-1785-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "It was discovered that poppler contained multiple security issues when parsing malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/1785-1/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-glib2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-glib4"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-glib6"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler-glib8"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler13"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler19"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler28"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpoppler5"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2013/04/09"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/04/02"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/04/03"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2013-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("ubuntu.inc"); include("misc_func.inc"); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release"); if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu"); release = chomp(release); if (! preg(pattern:"^(8\.04|10\.04|11\.10|12\.04|12\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 8.04 / 10.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 / 12.10", "Ubuntu " + release); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu); flag = 0; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"libpoppler-glib2", pkgver:"0.6.4-1ubuntu3.6")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"libpoppler2", pkgver:"0.6.4-1ubuntu3.6")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"libpoppler-glib4", pkgver:"0.12.4-0ubuntu5.3")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"libpoppler5", pkgver:"0.12.4-0ubuntu5.3")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.10", pkgname:"libpoppler-glib6", pkgver:"0.16.7-2ubuntu2.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.10", pkgname:"libpoppler13", pkgver:"0.16.7-2ubuntu2.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.04", pkgname:"libpoppler-glib8", pkgver:"0.18.4-1ubuntu3.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.04", pkgname:"libpoppler19", pkgver:"0.18.4-1ubuntu3.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.10", pkgname:"libpoppler-glib8", pkgver:"0.20.4-0ubuntu1.2")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.10", pkgname:"libpoppler28", pkgver:"0.20.4-0ubuntu1.2")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : ubuntu_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "libpoppler-glib2 / libpoppler-glib4 / libpoppler-glib6 / etc"); }
NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201310-03.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201310-03 (Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Poppler. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF file, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 70309 published 2013-10-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/70309 title GLSA-201310-03 : Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2013-3473.NASL description This update fixes these security issues: CVE-2013-1788, CVE-2013-1789 and CVE-2013-1790. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2013-03-14 plugin id 65538 published 2013-03-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/65538 title Fedora 18 : poppler-0.20.2-10.fc18 (2013-3473) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2013-3457.NASL description This update fixes these security issues: CVE-2013-1788 and CVE-2013-1790. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2013-03-14 plugin id 65536 published 2013-03-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/65536 title Fedora 17 : poppler-0.18.4-4.fc17 (2013-3457) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_LIBPOPPLER-DEVEL-130326.NASL description This update of poppler fixes the following vulnerabilities : - Various invalid memory issues could be used by attackers supplying PDFs to crash the PDF viewer or potentially execute code. (CVE-2013-1788) - A crash in poppler could be used by attackers providing PDFs to crash the PDF viewer. (CVE-2013-1789) - An uninitialized memory read could be used by attackers providing PDFs to crash the PDF viewer. (CVE-2013-1790) last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2013-04-03 plugin id 65784 published 2013-04-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/65784 title SuSE 11.2 Security Update : poppler (SAT Patch Number 7560) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_POPPLER-8523.NASL description This update of poppler fixes the following vulnerabilities : - Various invalid memory issues could be used by attackers supplying PDFs to crash the PDF viewer or potentially execute code. (CVE-2013-1788) - A crash in poppler could be used by attackers providing PDFs to crash the PDF viewer. (CVE-2013-1789) - An uninitialized memory read could be used by attackers providing PDFs to crash the PDF viewer. (CVE-2013-1790) This also fixes that transparent background in images are rendered black with evince. (bnc#745620). last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2013-04-03 plugin id 65785 published 2013-04-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/65785 title SuSE 10 Security Update : poppler (ZYPP Patch Number 8523) NASL family Solaris Local Security Checks NASL id SOLARIS11_GNOME_20130924.NASL description The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates : - The RenderV2ToFile function in tag_file.cpp in id3lib (aka libid3) 3.8.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file whose name is constructed from the name of a file being tagged. (CVE-2007-4460) - poppler before 0.22.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger an last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 80625 published 2015-01-19 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/80625 title Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : gnome (cve_2007_4460_symlink_attack)
References
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=a205e71a2dbe0c8d4f4905a76a3f79ec522eacec
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=a9b8ab4657dec65b8b86c225d12c533ad7e984e2
- http://j00ru.vexillium.org/?p=1507
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100081.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100090.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52846
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1785-1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/28/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/28/8
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917109