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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : Expat vulnerability (USN-7424-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 234028

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7424-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Expat could crash due to stack overflow when

 processing XML documents with deeply nested entity references. If a user

 or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted XML

 input, an attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service.

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

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

Solution

Update the affected expat, libexpat1 and / or libexpat1-dev packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7424-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 234028

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7424-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/8/2025

Updated: 4/8/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8176

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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexpat1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:expat, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexpat1-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-8176

IAVA: 2025-A-0186

USN: 7424-1