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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libxml2 (MDVSA-2014:204)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 78666

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Synopsis

The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in libxml2 :

A denial of service flaw was found in libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would lead to excessive CPU consumption (denial of service) based on excessive entity substitutions, even if entity substitution was disabled, which is the parser default behavior (CVE-2014-3660).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1655.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 78666

File Name: mandriva_MDVSA-2014-204.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 10/24/2014

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64xml2-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64xml2_2, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libxml2-python, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libxml2-utils, cpe:/o:mandriva:business_server:1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/23/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3660

BID: 70644

MDVSA: 2014:204