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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : xerces-c (EulerOS-SA-2018-1422)

high Nessus Plugin ID 119911

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the xerces-c package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - xerces-c: Stack overflow when parsing deeply nested DTD (CVE-2016-4463)

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 xerces-c package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?342f7c1b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 119911

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2018-1422.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Published: 12/28/2018

Updated: 7/12/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-4463

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:xerces-c

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

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/22/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4463