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RHEL 6 / 7 : xerces-j2 (RHSA-2014:1319)

high Nessus Plugin ID 77979

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated xerces-j2 packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Apache Xerces for Java (Xerces-J) is a high performance, standards compliant, validating XML parser written in Java. The xerces-j2 packages provide Xerces-J version 2.

A resource consumption issue was found in the way Xerces-J handled XML declarations. A remote attacker could use an XML document with a specially crafted declaration using a long pseudo-attribute name that, when parsed by an application using Xerces-J, would cause that application to use an excessive amount of CPU. (CVE-2013-4002)

All xerces-j2 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. Applications using the Xerces-J must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1319

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4002

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 77979

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-1319.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/30/2014

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-j2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-j2-javadoc-other, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-j2-scripts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-j2-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-j2-demo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-j2-javadoc-impl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-j2-javadoc-apis, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-j2-javadoc-xni, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-j2, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/29/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4002

RHSA: 2014:1319