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EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : expat (EulerOS-SA-2019-2145)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 130854
Synopsis
The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.Description
According to the versions of the expat packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :- An integer overflow during the parsing of XML using the Expat library. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.(CVE-2016-9063)
- In libexpat before 2.2.8, crafted XML input could fool the parser into changing from DTD parsing to document parsing too early a consecutive call to XML_GetCurrentLineNumber (or XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber) then resulted in a heap-based buffer over-read.(CVE-2019-15903)
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 expat packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 130854
File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-2145.nasl
Version: 1.7
Type: local
Family: Huawei Local Security Checks
Published: 11/12/2019
Updated: 4/12/2024
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 5.9
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-9063
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 8.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:expat, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:expat-devel, 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
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 10/27/2019
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2016-9063, CVE-2019-15903