The xmlStringGetNodeList function in tree.c in libxml2 2.9.3 and earlier, when used in recovery mode, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion, stack consumption, and application crash) via a crafted XML document.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - libxml2: Use after free via namespace node in XPointer ranges (CVE-2016-4658)

  - libxml2: Missing validation for external entities in xmlParsePEReference (CVE-2017-7375)

  - libxml2 through 2.9.1 does not properly handle external entities expansion unless an application developer     uses the xmlSAX2ResolveEntity or xmlSetExternalEntityLoader function, which allows remote attackers to     cause a denial of service (resource consumption), send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or read     arbitrary files via a crafted XML document, aka an XML External Entity (XXE) issue. NOTE: it could be     argued that because libxml2 already provides the ability to disable external entity expansion, the     responsibility for resolving this issue lies with application developers; according to this argument, this     entry should be REJECTed and each affected application would need its own CVE. (CVE-2013-0339)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

According to its self-reported version, the Nessus Network Monitor running on the remote host is prior to 6.2.2. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TNS-2023-23 advisory. Several of the third-party components were found to contain vulnerabilities, and updated versions have been made available by the providers. Out of caution and in line with best practice, Tenable has opted to upgrade these components to address the potential impact of the issues. Nessus Network Monitor 6.2.2 updates the following components:

  - c-ares from version 1.10.0 to version 1.19.1.
  - curl from version 7.79.1 to version 8.1.2.
  - libbzip2 from version 1.0.6 to version 1.0.8.
  - libpcre from version 8.42 to version 8.44.
  - libxml2 from version 2.7.7 to version 2.11.1.
  - libxslt from version 1.1.26 to version 1.1.37.
  - libxmlsec from version 1.2.18 to version 1.2.37.
  - sqlite from version 3.27.2 to version 3.40.1.
  - jQuery Cookie from version 1.3.1 to version 1.4.1.
  - jQuery UI from version 1.13.0 to version 1.13.2.
  - OpenSSL from version 3.0.8 to version 3.0.9.

According to its self-reported version number, the remote Juniper Junos device is affected by a Multiple vulnerabilities in libxml2:

- Format string vulnerability in libxml2 before 2.9.4 allows   attackers to have unspecified impact via format string   specifiers in unknown vectors.(CVE-2016-4448)   
- The xmlStringGetNodeList function in tree.c in libxml2 2.9.3 and   earlier, when used in recovery mode, allows context-dependent   attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion, stack   consumption, and application crash) via a crafted XML document.   (CVE-2016-3627)

The version of Tenable Log Correlation Engine (LCE) installed on the remote host is prior to 4.8.1. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities     exist in the Handlebars library in the     lib/handlebars/utils.js script due to a failure to     properly escape input passed as unquoted attributes to     templates. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can     exploit these vulnerabilities, via a specially crafted     request, to execute arbitrary script code in a user's     browser session. (CVE-2015-8861, CVE-2015-8862)

  - A heap-based buffer overflow condition exists in the     Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) component     that is triggered when processing nested back references     in a duplicate named group. An unauthenticated, remote     attacker can exploit this to cause a denial of service     condition or the execution of arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2016-1283)

  - An out-of-bounds read error exists in the libxml2     component in parserInternals.c due to improper parsing     of characters in an XML file. An unauthenticated, remote     attacker can exploit this to disclose sensitive     information or cause a denial of service condition.
    (CVE-2016-1833)

  - An overflow condition exists in the libxml2 component in     xmlstring.c due to improper validation of user-supplied     input when handling a string with NULL. An     unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a     specially crafted file, to cause a denial of service     condition or the execution of arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2016-1834)

  - Multiple use-after-free errors exist in the libxml2     component in parser.c that is triggered when parsing     complex names. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can     exploit these issues, via a specially crafted file, to     dereference already freed memory and potentially execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1835, CVE-2016-1836)

  - Multiple heap-based buffer overflow conditions exist in     the libxml2 component in HTMLparser.c and xmlregexp.c     due to improper validation of user-supplied input when     parsing characters in a range. An unauthenticated,     remote attacker can exploit these issues, via a     specially crafted file, to cause a denial of service     condition or the execution of arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2016-1837, CVE-2016-1839, CVE-2016-1840)

  - Multiple out-of-bounds read errors exist in the libxml2     component in parser.c. An unauthenticated, remote     attacker can exploit these issues to disclose sensitive     information or cause a denial of service condition.
    (CVE-2016-1838, CVE-2016-4447)

  - A heap buffer overflow condition exists in the OpenSSL     component in the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function within file     crypto/evp/encode.c that is triggered when handling a     large amount of input data. An unauthenticated, remote     attacker can exploit this to cause a denial of service     condition. (CVE-2016-2105)

  - A heap buffer overflow condition exists in the OpenSSL     component in the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function within     file crypto/evp/evp_enc.c that is triggered when     handling a large amount of input data after a previous     call occurs to the same function with a partial block.
    An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to     cause a denial of service condition. (CVE-2016-2106)

  - Flaws exist in the aesni_cbc_hmac_sha1_cipher()     function in file crypto/evp/e_aes_cbc_hmac_sha1.c and     the aesni_cbc_hmac_sha256_cipher() function in file     crypto/evp/e_aes_cbc_hmac_sha256.c that are triggered     when the connection uses an AES-CBC cipher and AES-NI     is supported by the server. A man-in-the-middle attacker     can exploit these to conduct a padding oracle attack,     resulting in the ability to decrypt the network traffic.
    (CVE-2016-2107)

  - A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the     OpenSSL component in the ASN.1 encoder due to an     underflow condition that occurs when attempting to     encode the value zero represented as a negative integer.
    An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to     corrupt memory, resulting in the execution of arbitrary     code. (CVE-2016-2108)

  - Multiple unspecified flaws exist in the d2i BIO     functions when reading ASN.1 data from a BIO due to     invalid encoding causing a large allocation of memory.
    An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit these to     cause a denial of service condition through resource     exhaustion. (CVE-2016-2109)

  - An out-of-bounds read error exists in the     X509_NAME_oneline() function within file     crypto/x509/x509_obj.c when handling very long ASN1     strings. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit     this to disclose the contents of stack memory.
    (CVE-2016-2176)

  - An overflow condition exists in the Perl-Compatible     Regular Expressions (PCRE) component due to improper     validation of user-supplied input when handling the     (*ACCEPT) verb. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can     exploit this to cause a denial of service condition or     the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-3191)

  - A flaw exists in the libxml2 component in parser.c that     occurs when handling XML content in recovery mode. An     unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to     cause a stack exhaustion, resulting in a denial of     service condition. (CVE-2016-3627)

  - A flaw exists in the libxml2 component in parser.c due     to improper validation of user-supplied input. An     unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to     cause a stack exhaustion, resulting in a denial of     service condition. (CVE-2016-3705)

  - A format string flaw exists in the libxml2 component due     to improper use of string format specifiers (e.g. %s and     %x). An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit     this to cause a denial of service condition or the     execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-4448)

  - An XML external entity injection vulnerability exists in     parser.c due to improper parsing of XML data. An     unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via     specially crafted XML data, to disclose arbitrary files     or cause a denial of service condition. (CVE-2016-4449)

  - An out-of-bounds read error exists in the libxml2     component in xmlsave.c that occurs when handling XML     content in recovery mode. An unauthenticated, remote     attacker can exploit this to disclose sensitive     information or cause a denial of service condition.
    (CVE-2016-4483)

  - A security bypass vulnerability exists in the libcurl     component due to the program attempting to resume TLS     sessions even if the client certificate fails. An     unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to     bypass validation mechanisms. (CVE-2016-5419)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the     libcurl component due to the program reusing TLS     connections with different client certificates. An     unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to     disclose sensitive cross-realm information.
    (CVE-2016-5420)

  - A use-after-free error exists in the libcurl component     that is triggered as connection pointers are not     properly cleared for easy handles. An unauthenticated,     remote attacker can exploit this to dereference already     freed memory, potentially resulting in the execution of     arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5421)

  - Multiple stored cross-site scripting (XSS)   	vulnerabilities exist due to improper validation of   	user-supplied input. An authenticated, remote attacker   	can exploit these, via a specially crafted request, to   	execute arbitrary script code in a user's browsers   	session. (CVE-2016-9261)

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201701-37 (libxml2: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libxml2. Please review       the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system to process a       specially crafted XML document, 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.

CVE-2016-3627 The xmlStringGetNodeList function in tree.c in libxml2 2.9.3 and earlier, when used in recovery mode, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion, stack consumption, and application crash) via a crafted XML document

CVE-2016-3705 The (1) xmlParserEntityCheck and (2) xmlParseAttValueComplex functions in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.3 do not properly keep track of the recursion depth, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.

Daniel Veillard reports :

More format string warnings with possible format string vulnerability (David Kilzer)

Avoid building recursive entities (Daniel Veillard)

Heap-based buffer overread in htmlCurrentChar (Pranjal Jumde)

Heap-based buffer-underreads due to xmlParseName (David Kilzer)

Heap use-after-free in xmlSAX2AttributeNs (Pranjal Jumde)

Heap use-after-free in htmlParsePubidLiteral and htmlParseSystemiteral (Pranjal Jumde)

Fix some format string warnings with possible format string vulnerability (David Kilzer)

Detect change of encoding when parsing HTML names (Hugh Davenport)

Fix inappropriate fetch of entities content (Daniel Veillard)

Bug 759398: Heap use-after-free in xmlDictComputeFastKey (Pranjal Jumde)

Bug 758605: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlDictAddString (Pranjal Jumde)

Bug 758588: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlParserPrintFileContextInternal (David Kilzer)

Bug 757711: heap-buffer-overflow in xmlFAParsePosCharGroup (Pranjal Jumde)

Add missing increments of recursion depth counter to XML parser.
(Peter Simons)

Fix NULL pointer deref in XPointer range-to

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 parsed certain crafted XML input. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when opened in an application linked against libxml2, would cause the application to crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application.
(CVE-2016-1834 , CVE-2016-1840)

Multiple denial of service flaws were found in libxml2. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, could cause that application to crash. (CVE-2016-1762 , CVE-2016-1833 , CVE-2016-1835 , CVE-2016-1836 , CVE-2016-1837 , CVE-2016-1838 , CVE-2016-1839 , CVE-2016-3627 , CVE-2016-3705 , CVE-2016-4447 , CVE-2016-4448 , CVE-2016-4449)

Security Fix(es) :

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 parsed certain crafted XML input. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when opened in an application linked against libxml2, would cause the application to crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application.
(CVE-2016-1834, CVE-2016-1840)

Multiple denial of service flaws were found in libxml2. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, could cause that application to crash. (CVE-2016-1762, CVE-2016-1833, CVE-2016-1835, CVE-2016-1836, CVE-2016-1837, CVE-2016-1838, CVE-2016-1839, CVE-2016-3627, CVE-2016-3705, CVE-2016-4447, CVE-2016-4448, CVE-2016-4449)

An update for libxml2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

[Updated 18 July 2016] This advisory has been updated to push packages into the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Desktop channels. The packages included in this revised update have not been changed in any way from the packages included in the original advisory.

The libxml2 library is a development toolbox providing the implementation of various XML standards.

Security Fix(es) :

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 parsed certain crafted XML input. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when opened in an application linked against libxml2, would cause the application to crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application.
(CVE-2016-1834, CVE-2016-1840)

Multiple denial of service flaws were found in libxml2. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, could cause that application to crash. (CVE-2016-1762, CVE-2016-1833, CVE-2016-1835, CVE-2016-1836, CVE-2016-1837, CVE-2016-1838, CVE-2016-1839, CVE-2016-3627, CVE-2016-3705, CVE-2016-4447, CVE-2016-4448, CVE-2016-4449)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :

  - Update doc/redhat.gif in tarball

  - Add libxml2-oracle-enterprise.patch and update logos in     tarball

  - Heap-based buffer overread in xmlNextChar     (CVE-2016-1762)

  - Bug 763071: Heap-buffer-overflow in xmlStrncat     (CVE-2016-1834)

  - Bug 757711: Heap-buffer-overflow in     xmlFAParsePosCharGroup (CVE-2016-1840)

  - Bug 758588: Heap-based buffer overread in     xmlParserPrintFileContextInternal (CVE-2016-1838)

  - Bug 758605: Heap-based buffer overread in     xmlDictAddString (CVE-2016-1839)

  - Bug 759398: Heap use-after-free in xmlDictComputeFastKey     (CVE-2016-1836)

  - Fix inappropriate fetch of entities content     (CVE-2016-4449)

  - Heap use-after-free in htmlParsePubidLiteral and     htmlParseSystemiteral (CVE-2016-1837)

  - Heap use-after-free in xmlSAX2AttributeNs     (CVE-2016-1835)

  - Heap-based buffer-underreads due to xmlParseName     (CVE-2016-4447)

  - Heap-based buffer overread in htmlCurrentChar     (CVE-2016-1833)

  - Add missing increments of recursion depth counter to XML     parser. (CVE-2016-3705)

  - Avoid building recursive entities (CVE-2016-3627)

  - Fix some format string warnings with possible format     string vulnerability (CVE-2016-4448)

  - More format string warnings with possible format string     vulnerability (CVE-2016-4448)

  - Fix large parse of file from memory (rhbz#862969)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-1292 advisory.

    - Heap-based buffer overread in xmlNextChar (CVE-2016-1762)
    - Bug 763071: Heap-buffer-overflow in xmlStrncat <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763071>     (CVE-2016-1834)
    - Bug 757711: Heap-buffer-overflow in xmlFAParsePosCharGroup     <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757711> (CVE-2016-1840)
    - Bug 758588: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlParserPrintFileContextInternal     <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758588> (CVE-2016-1838)
    - Bug 758605: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlDictAddString     <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758605> (CVE-2016-1839)
    - Bug 759398: Heap use-after-free in xmlDictComputeFastKey     <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759398> (CVE-2016-1836)
    - Fix inappropriate fetch of entities content (CVE-2016-4449)
    - Heap use-after-free in htmlParsePubidLiteral and htmlParseSystemiteral (CVE-2016-1837)
    - Heap use-after-free in xmlSAX2AttributeNs (CVE-2016-1835)
    - Heap-based buffer-underreads due to xmlParseName (CVE-2016-4447)
    - Heap-based buffer overread in htmlCurrentChar (CVE-2016-1833)
    - Add missing increments of recursion depth counter to XML parser. (CVE-2016-3705)
    - Avoid building recursive entities (CVE-2016-3627)
    - Fix some format string warnings with possible format string vulnerability (CVE-2016-4448)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update brings libxml2 to version 2.9.4.

These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2016-3627: The xmlStringGetNodeList function in     tree.c, when used in recovery mode, allowed     context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service     (infinite recursion, stack consumption, and application     crash) via a crafted XML document (bsc#972335).

  - CVE-2016-1833: libxml2 allowed remote attackers to     execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service     (memory corruption) via a crafted XML document, a     different vulnerability than CVE-2016-1834,     CVE-2016-1836, CVE-2016-1837, CVE-2016-1838,     CVE-2016-1839, and CVE-2016-1840 (bsc#981108).

  - CVE-2016-1835: libxml2 allowed remote attackers to     execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service     (memory corruption) via a crafted XML document     (bsc#981109).

  - CVE-2016-1837: libxml2 allowed remote attackers to     execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service     (memory corruption) via a crafted XML document, a     different vulnerability than CVE-2016-1833,     CVE-2016-1834, CVE-2016-1836, CVE-2016-1838,     CVE-2016-1839, and CVE-2016-1840 (bsc#981111).

  - CVE-2016-1836: libxml2 allowed remote attackers to     execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service     (memory corruption) via a crafted XML document, a     different vulnerability than CVE-2016-1833,     CVE-2016-1834, CVE-2016-1837, CVE-2016-1838,     CVE-2016-1839, and CVE-2016-1840 (bsc#981110).

  - CVE-2016-1839: libxml2 allowed remote attackers to     execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service     (memory corruption) via a crafted XML document, a     different vulnerability than CVE-2016-1833,     CVE-2016-1834, CVE-2016-1836, CVE-2016-1837,     CVE-2016-1838, and CVE-2016-1840 (bsc#981114).

  - CVE-2016-1838: libxml2 allowed remote attackers to     execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service     (memory corruption) via a crafted XML document, a     different vulnerability than CVE-2016-1833,     CVE-2016-1834, CVE-2016-1836, CVE-2016-1837,     CVE-2016-1839, and CVE-2016-1840 (bsc#981112).

  - CVE-2016-1840: libxml2 allowed remote attackers to     execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service     (memory corruption) via a crafted XML document, a     different vulnerability than CVE-2016-1833,     CVE-2016-1834, CVE-2016-1836, CVE-2016-1837,     CVE-2016-1838, and CVE-2016-1839 (bsc#981115).

  - CVE-2016-4483: out-of-bounds read parsing an XML using     recover mode (bnc#978395).

  - CVE-2016-1834: libxml2 allowed remote attackers to     execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service     (memory corruption) via a crafted XML document, a     different vulnerability than CVE-2016-1833,     CVE-2016-1836, CVE-2016-1837, CVE-2016-1838,     CVE-2016-1839, and CVE-2016-1840 (bsc#981041).

  - CVE-2016-3705: The (1) xmlParserEntityCheck and (2)     xmlParseAttValueComplex functions in parser.c in libxml2     did not properly keep track of the recursion depth,     which allowed context-dependent attackers to cause a     denial of service (stack consumption and application     crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large     number of nested entity references (bsc#975947).

  - CVE-2016-1762: libxml2 allowed remote attackers to     execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service     (memory corruption) via a crafted XML document     (bsc#981040).

This non-security issue was fixed :

  - bnc#983288: Fix attribute decoding during XML schema     validation

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2994-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated     system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause libxml2 to     crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8806, CVE-2016-2073, CVE-2016-3627, CVE-2016-3705,     CVE-2016-4447)

    It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated     system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could cause libxml2 to crash,     resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1762, CVE-2016-1834)

    Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or     automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could cause libxml2     to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1833,     CVE-2016-1838, CVE-2016-1839)

    Wei Lei and Liu Yang discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or     automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could cause libxml2     to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1835,     CVE-2016-1837)

    Wei Lei and Liu Yang discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or     automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could cause libxml2     to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to     Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-1836)

    Kostya Serebryany discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or     automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could cause libxml2     to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1840)

    It was discovered that libxml2 would load certain XML external entities. If a user or automated system     were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly obtain access to     arbitrary files or cause resource consumption. (CVE-2016-4449)

    Gustavo Grieco discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or     automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause     libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-4483)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML or HTML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would cause a denial of service against the application, or potentially the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy6.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxml2 packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML or HTML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would cause a denial-of-service against the application, or potentially the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

libxml2 was updated to fix security issues and a regression from the last version update.

Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2016-3627: Fixed stack exhaustion while parsing     certain XML files in recovery mode (bnc#972335).

  - CVE-2016-3705: Improved protection against the Billion     Laughs Attack (bnc#975947).

Regression fixed :

  - Fixed XML push parser that fails with bogus UTF-8     encoding error when multi-byte character in large CDATA     section is split across buffer [bnc#962796]

This update for libxml2 fixes two security issues :

  - libxml2 limits the number of recursions an XML document     can contain so to protect against the 'Billion Laughs'     denial-of-service attack. Unfortunately, the underlying     counter was not incremented properly in all necessary     locations. Therefore, specially crafted XML documents     could exhaust all available stack space and crash the     XML parser without running into the recursion limit.
    This vulnerability has been fixed. (bsc#975947)

  - When running in recovery mode, certain invalid XML     documents would trigger an infinite recursion in libxml2     that ran until all stack space was exhausted. This     vulnerability could have been used to facilitate a     denial-of-sevice attack. (CVE-2016-3627, bsc#972335)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

This update for libxml2 fixes two security issues :

  - libxml2 limits the number of recursions an XML document     can contain so to protect against the 'Billion Laughs'     denial-of-service attack. Unfortunately, the underlying     counter was not incremented properly in all necessary     locations. Therefore, specially crafted XML documents     could exhaust all available stack space and crash the     XML parser without running into the recursion limit.
    This vulnerability has been fixed. (bsc#975947)

  - When running in recovery mode, certain invalid XML     documents would trigger an infinite recursion in libxml2     that ran until all stack space was exhausted. This     vulnerability could have been used to facilitate a     denial-of-sevice attack. (CVE-2016-3627, bsc#972335)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
198481	RHEL 5 : libxml2 (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
195433	RHEL 5 : libxml2 (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
177842	Nessus Network Monitor < 6.2.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities (TNS-2023-23)	Nessus	Misc.	critical
121070	Junos OS: Multiple vulnerabilities in libxml2 (JSA10916)	Nessus	Junos Local Security Checks	critical
97893	Tenable Log Correlation Engine (LCE) < 4.8.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Misc.	critical
96541	GLSA-201701-37 : libxml2: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
95966	F5 Networks BIG-IP : libxml2 vulnerabilities (K54225343)	Nessus	F5 Networks Local Security Checks	high
93145	FreeBSD : libxml2 -- multiple vulnerabilities (e195679d-045b-4953-bb33-be0073ba2ac6)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high
92221	Amazon Linux AMI : libxml2 (ALAS-2016-719)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	critical
91808	Scientific Linux Security Update : libxml2 on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20160623)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	critical
91802	RHEL 6 / 7 : libxml2 (RHSA-2016:1292)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
91800	OracleVM 3.3 / 3.4 : libxml2 (OVMSA-2016-0087)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	critical
91797	Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : libxml2 (ELSA-2016-1292)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	critical
91786	CentOS 6 / 7 : libxml2 (CESA-2016:1292)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	critical
91640	openSUSE Security Update : libxml2 (openSUSE-2016-734)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
91499	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : libxml2 vulnerabilities (USN-2994-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
91472	Debian DLA-503-1 : libxml2 security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
91447	Debian DSA-3593-1 : libxml2 - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
91409	openSUSE Security Update : libxml2 (openSUSE-2016-662)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
91147	openSUSE Security Update : libxml2 (openSUSE-2016-583)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
90886	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : libxml2 (SUSE-SU-2016:1205-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
90885	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libxml2 (SUSE-SU-2016:1204-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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CVE-2016-3627

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