The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0413 advisory.

    The libxml2 library is a development toolbox providing the implementation of various XML standards.

    Security Fix(es):

    * libxml2: integer overflows with XML_PARSE_HUGE (CVE-2022-40303)

    * libxml2: dict corruption caused by entity reference cycles (CVE-2022-40304)

    * libxml2: NULL dereference in xmlSchemaFixupComplexType (CVE-2023-28484)

    * libxml2: Hashing of empty dict strings isn't deterministic (CVE-2023-29469)

    * libxml2: crafted xml can cause global buffer overflow (CVE-2023-39615)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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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RHEL 8 : libxml2 (RHSA-2024:0413)

high Nessus Plugin ID 189557

Version 1.4

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.0

Version 1.4 Nov 8, 2024, 5:19 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411080519
Version 1.3 Nov 5, 2024, 6:29 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202411051829
Version 1.2 Jun 4, 2024, 3:18 AM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202406040318
Version 1.0 Jan 26, 2024, 12:01 AM New Plugin Feed: 202401260001