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EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : xerces-j2 (EulerOS-SA-2020-1889)

high Nessus Plugin ID 139992

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the xerces-j2 package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - Apache Xerces2 Java Parser before 2.12.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted message to an XML service, which triggers hash table collisions.(CVE-2012-0881)

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-j2 package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4ad5275c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 139992

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-1889.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 8/28/2020

Updated: 2/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0881

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:xerces-j2, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/28/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0881

BID: 68753