Oracle Linux 6 : libxml2 (ELSA-2015-1419)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85106

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2015-1419 advisory.

- CVE-2015-1819 Enforce the reader to run in constant memory(rhbz#1214163)
- Fix missing entities after CVE-2014-3660 fix (rhbz#1149086)
- CVE-2014-3660 denial of service via recursive entity expansion (rhbz#1149086)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85106

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-1419.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Oracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 7/30/2015

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1819

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libxml2-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libxml2-python, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libxml2, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libxml2-static, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/14/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1819

BID: 75570

RHSA: 2015:1419

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