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EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.0 : libxml2 (EulerOS-SA-2018-1255)

high Nessus Plugin ID 117564

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the libxml2 packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - An integer overflow in xmlmemory.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5, as used in Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.62 and other products, allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted XML file.(CVE-2017-5130)

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 libxml2 package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?dc22b667

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 117564

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2018-1255.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Published: 9/18/2018

Updated: 8/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5130

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libxml2-python, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libxml2-devel, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.5.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libxml2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5130