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Debian DSA-1953-1 : expat - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44818

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Jan Lieskovsky discovered an error in expat, an XML parsing C library, when parsing certain UTF-8 sequences, which can be exploited to crash an application using the library.

Solution

Upgrade the expat packages.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.95.8-3.4+etch2.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.1-4+lenny2.

The builds for the mipsel architecture for the oldstable distribution are not included yet. They will be released when they become available.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560901

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1953

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44818

File Name: debian_DSA-1953.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:expat, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/15/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3560

BID: 37203

CWE: 119

DSA: 1953