The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-1292 advisory.

    - Heap-based buffer overread in xmlNextChar (CVE-2016-1762)
    - Bug 763071: Heap-buffer-overflow in xmlStrncat <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763071>     (CVE-2016-1834)
    - Bug 757711: Heap-buffer-overflow in xmlFAParsePosCharGroup     <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757711> (CVE-2016-1840)
    - Bug 758588: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlParserPrintFileContextInternal     <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758588> (CVE-2016-1838)
    - Bug 758605: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlDictAddString     <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758605> (CVE-2016-1839)
    - Bug 759398: Heap use-after-free in xmlDictComputeFastKey     <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759398> (CVE-2016-1836)
    - Fix inappropriate fetch of entities content (CVE-2016-4449)
    - Heap use-after-free in htmlParsePubidLiteral and htmlParseSystemiteral (CVE-2016-1837)
    - Heap use-after-free in xmlSAX2AttributeNs (CVE-2016-1835)
    - Heap-based buffer-underreads due to xmlParseName (CVE-2016-4447)
    - Heap-based buffer overread in htmlCurrentChar (CVE-2016-1833)
    - Add missing increments of recursion depth counter to XML parser. (CVE-2016-3705)
    - Avoid building recursive entities (CVE-2016-3627)
    - Fix some format string warnings with possible format string vulnerability (CVE-2016-4448)

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

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

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Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : libxml2 (ELSA-2016-1292)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 91797

Version 2.12

Version 2.11

Version 2.12 Nov 1, 2024, 11:44 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202411012344
Version 2.11 Oct 23, 2024, 12:00 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410230000