perl-Image-Info: When parsing an SVG file, external entity expansion (XXE) was not disabled. An attacker could craft an SVG file which, when processed by an application using perl-Image-Info, could cause denial of service or, potentially, information disclosure.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - perl-Image-Info: XXE in SVG files (CVE-2016-9181)

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - perl-Image-Info: XXE in SVG files (CVE-2016-9181)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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 the version of the perl-Image-Info package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - perl-Image-Info: When parsing an SVG file, external     entity expansion (XXE) was not disabled. An attacker     could craft an SVG file which, when processed by an     application using perl-Image-Info, could cause denial     of service or, potentially, information     disclosure.(CVE-2016-9181)

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

This update for perl-Image-Info fixes the following issues :

  - update to version 1.39 to fix a potential security     issue. A crafted SVG file could have caused information     disclosure or denial of service by using external     entitity expansion (XXE). This is a potentially     incompatible change; however usually SVG files do not     rely on XXE. (boo#1008647, CVE-2016-9181)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199178	RHEL 7 : perl-image-info (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
199177	RHEL 6 : perl-image-info (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
195366	RHEL 7 : perl-image-info (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
195348	RHEL 6 : perl-image-info (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
140910	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : perl-Image-Info (EulerOS-SA-2020-2143)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
97710	openSUSE Security Update : perl-Image-Info (openSUSE-2017-327)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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CVE-2016-9181

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