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Debian DLA-281-1 : expat security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 84990

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the XML_GetBuffer function in Expat through 2.1.0, as used in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89 and other products, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted XML data, a related issue to CVE-2015-2716.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/07/msg00021.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/expat

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 84990

File Name: debian_DLA-281.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/27/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:expat, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexpat1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexpat1-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib64expat1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexpat1-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib64expat1-dev

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/25/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1283

BID: 75973