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EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : xerces-j2 (EulerOS-SA-2022-1592)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 160138

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - There's a vulnerability within the Apache Xerces Java (XercesJ) XML parser when handling specially crafted XML document payloads. This causes, the XercesJ XML parser to wait in an infinite loop, which may sometimes consume system resources for prolonged duration. This vulnerability is present within XercesJ version 2.12.1 and the previous versions. (CVE-2022-23437)

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 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7442fdfc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 160138

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2022-1592.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 4/25/2022

Updated: 10/31/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-23437

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 6

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/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/cpu, 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: 4/25/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/24/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-23437