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RHEL 7 : xerces-c (RHSA-2016:0430)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 89862

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Synopsis

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

Description

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

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important 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.

Xerces-C is a validating XML parser written in a portable subset of C++.

It was discovered that the Xerces-C XML parser did not properly process certain XML input. By providing specially crafted XML data to an application using Xerces-C for XML processing, a remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause an application crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the application.
(CVE-2016-0729)

Red Hat would like to thank Gustavo Grieco for reporting this issue.

All xerces-c users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the update, all applications using Xerces-C must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0430

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-0729

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 89862

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2016-0430.nasl

Version: 2.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/11/2016

Updated: 10/24/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-c-debuginfo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-c, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-c-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-c-doc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6

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: 3/10/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/7/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-0729

RHSA: 2016:0430