Updated xerces-j2 packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate 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.
Apache Xerces for Java (Xerces-J) is a high performance, standards compliant, validating XML parser written in Java. The xerces-j2 packages provide Xerces-J version 2.
A resource consumption issue was found in the way Xerces-J handled XML declarations. A remote attacker could use an XML document with a specially crafted declaration using a long pseudo-attribute name that, when parsed by an application using Xerces-J, would cause that application to use an excessive amount of CPU. (CVE-2013-4002)
All xerces-j2 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. Applications using the Xerces-J must be restarted for this update to take effect.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2014:1319 and
# CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2014:1319 respectively.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(77994);
script_version("1.9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2013-4002");
script_bugtraq_id(61310);
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2014:1319");
script_name(english:"CentOS 6 / 7 : xerces-j2 (CESA-2014:1319)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Updated xerces-j2 packages that fix one security issue are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate
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.
Apache Xerces for Java (Xerces-J) is a high performance, standards
compliant, validating XML parser written in Java. The xerces-j2
packages provide Xerces-J version 2.
A resource consumption issue was found in the way Xerces-J handled XML
declarations. A remote attacker could use an XML document with a
specially crafted declaration using a long pseudo-attribute name that,
when parsed by an application using Xerces-J, would cause that
application to use an excessive amount of CPU. (CVE-2013-4002)
All xerces-j2 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. Applications
using the Xerces-J must be restarted for this update to take effect."
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-September/020603.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?f7c3949b"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-September/020605.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?b6b44b23"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected xerces-j2 packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2013-4002");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xerces-j2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xerces-j2-demo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xerces-j2-javadoc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xerces-j2-javadoc-apis");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xerces-j2-javadoc-impl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xerces-j2-javadoc-other");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xerces-j2-javadoc-xni");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xerces-j2-scripts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2013/07/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/09/30");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/10/01");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"CentOS Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/CentOS/release", "Host/CentOS/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/release");
if (isnull(release) || "CentOS" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "CentOS(?: Linux)? release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "CentOS");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(6|7)([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS 6.x / 7.x", "CentOS " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "CentOS", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"xerces-j2-2.7.1-12.7.el6_5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"xerces-j2-demo-2.7.1-12.7.el6_5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"xerces-j2-javadoc-apis-2.7.1-12.7.el6_5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"xerces-j2-javadoc-impl-2.7.1-12.7.el6_5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"xerces-j2-javadoc-other-2.7.1-12.7.el6_5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"xerces-j2-javadoc-xni-2.7.1-12.7.el6_5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"xerces-j2-scripts-2.7.1-12.7.el6_5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"xerces-j2-2.11.0-17.el7_0")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"xerces-j2-demo-2.11.0-17.el7_0")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"xerces-j2-javadoc-2.11.0-17.el7_0")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "xerces-j2 / xerces-j2-demo / xerces-j2-javadoc / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
centos | centos | xerces-j2 | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xerces-j2 |
centos | centos | xerces-j2-demo | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xerces-j2-demo |
centos | centos | xerces-j2-javadoc | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xerces-j2-javadoc |
centos | centos | xerces-j2-javadoc-apis | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xerces-j2-javadoc-apis |
centos | centos | xerces-j2-javadoc-impl | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xerces-j2-javadoc-impl |
centos | centos | xerces-j2-javadoc-other | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xerces-j2-javadoc-other |
centos | centos | xerces-j2-javadoc-xni | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xerces-j2-javadoc-xni |
centos | centos | xerces-j2-scripts | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xerces-j2-scripts |
centos | centos | 6 | cpe:/o:centos:centos:6 |
centos | centos | 7 | cpe:/o:centos:centos:7 |