The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2022-1069 advisory.

    - lib: Prevent integer overflow in doProlog [CVE-2022-23990][Orabug: 33910302]
    - CVE-2022-25236 expat: namespace-separator characters in 'xmlns[:prefix]' attribute values can lead to     arbitrary code execution
    - CVE-2022-25235 expat: malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution
    - CVE-2022-25315 expat: integer overflow in storeRawNames()
    - Resolves: CVE-2022-25236
    - Resolves: CVE-2022-25235
    - Resolves: CVE-2022-25315
    - CVE-2022-23852 expat: integer overflow in function XML_GetBuffer
    - CVE-2021-45960 expat: Large number of prefixed XML attributes on a single tag can crash libexpat
    - CVE-2021-46143 expat: Integer overflow in doProlog in xmlparse.c
    - CVE-2022-22827 Integer overflow in storeAtts in xmlparse.c
    - CVE-2022-22826 Integer overflow in nextScaffoldPart in xmlparse.c
    - CVE-2022-22825 Integer overflow in lookup in xmlparse.c
    - CVE-2022-22824 Integer overflow in defineAttribute in xmlparse.c
    - CVE-2022-22823 Integer overflow in build_model in xmlparse.c
    - CVE-2022-22822 Integer overflow in addBinding in xmlparse.c
    - Resolves: CVE-2022-23852
    - Resolves: CVE-2021-45960
    - Resolves: CVE-2021-46143
    - Resolves: CVE-2022-22827
    - Resolves: CVE-2022-22826
    - Resolves: CVE-2022-22825
    - Resolves: CVE-2022-22824
    - Resolves: CVE-2022-22823

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Oracle Linux 7 : expat (ELSA-2022-1069)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 159295

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Version 1.6 Oct 22, 2024, 6:42 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410221842
Version 1.5 Nov 3, 2023, 1:41 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C") Plugin Feed: 202311031341