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EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : xmlsec1 (EulerOS-SA-2017-1193)

high Nessus Plugin ID 103031

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the xmlsec1 packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - It was discovered xmlsec1's use of libxml2 inadvertently enabled external entity expansion (XXE) along with validation. An attacker could craft an XML file that would cause xmlsec1 to try and read local files or HTTP/FTP URLs, leading to information disclosure or denial of service. (CVE-2017-1000061)

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.

Solution

Update the affected xmlsec1 package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?44d449e4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 103031

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2017-1193.nasl

Version: 3.14

Type: local

Published: 9/8/2017

Updated: 12/5/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:xmlsec1, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:xmlsec1-openssl, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Patch Publication Date: 8/22/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000061