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Debian DSA-2654-1 : libxslt - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65793

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Synopsis

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

Description

Nicolas Gregoire discovered that libxslt, an XSLT processing runtime library, is prone to denial of service vulnerabilities via crafted XSL stylesheets.

Solution

Upgrade the libxslt packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.26-6+squeeze3.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=703933

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/libxslt

https://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2654

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65793

File Name: debian_DSA-2654.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/4/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxslt

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/3/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6139

BID: 58685

DSA: 2654