Fedora 14 : libxml-1.8.17-27.fc14 (2011-7856)

high Nessus Plugin ID 55495

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update addresses CVE-2011-1944 (heap-based buffer overflow by adding a new namespace node to an existing nodeset or merging nodesets). It is described in detail at http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/05/libxml-vulnerability-an d-interesting.html

It also fixes the broken xpath implementation, which was crashing in the regression test suite on 32-bit architectures and failing some of the tests on all architectures.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libxml package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 55495

File Name: fedora_2011-7856.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 7/5/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libxml, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/3/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1944

BID: 48056

FEDORA: 2011-7856

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