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Debian DLA-483-1 : expat security update

2016-05-2000:00:00
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Gustavo Grieco discovered that Expat, a XML parsing C library, does not properly handle certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in buffer overflows during processing and error reporting. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause an application using the Expat library to crash, or potentially, to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

For Debian 7 ‘Wheezy’, these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.0-1+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your expat packages.

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.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-483-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(91265);
  script_version("2.14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-0718");

  script_name(english:"Debian DLA-483-1 : expat security update");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Gustavo Grieco discovered that Expat, a XML parsing C library, does
not properly handle certain kinds of malformed input documents,
resulting in buffer overflows during processing and error reporting. A
remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause an
application using the Expat library to crash, or potentially, to
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the
application.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version
2.1.0-1+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your expat packages.

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."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/05/msg00036.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/expat"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  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:debian:debian_linux:expat");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib64expat1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib64expat1-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexpat1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexpat1-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexpat1-udeb");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/05/19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/05/20");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"expat", reference:"2.1.0-1+deb7u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"lib64expat1", reference:"2.1.0-1+deb7u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"lib64expat1-dev", reference:"2.1.0-1+deb7u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libexpat1", reference:"2.1.0-1+deb7u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libexpat1-dev", reference:"2.1.0-1+deb7u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libexpat1-udeb", reference:"2.1.0-1+deb7u3")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
debiandebian_linuxexpatp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:expat
debiandebian_linuxlib64expat1p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib64expat1
debiandebian_linuxlib64expat1-devp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib64expat1-dev
debiandebian_linuxlibexpat1p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexpat1
debiandebian_linuxlibexpat1-devp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexpat1-dev
debiandebian_linuxlibexpat1-udebp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexpat1-udeb
debiandebian_linux7.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0