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Debian DLA-508-1 : expat security update

2016-06-0900:00:00
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Two related issues have been discovered in Expat, a C library for parsing XML.

CVE-2012-6702

This issue was introduced when CVE-2012-0876 was addressed. Stefan Sørensen discovered that the use of the function XML_Parse() seeds the random number generator generating repeated outputs for rand() calls.

CVE-2016-5300

This is the product of an incomplete solution for CVE-2012-0876. The parser poorly seeds the random number generator allowing an attacker to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an XML file with crafted identifiers.

You might need to manually restart programs and services using expat libraries.

For Debian 7 ‘Wheezy’, these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.0-1+deb7u4.

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-508-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(91523);
  script_version("2.10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2012-6702", "CVE-2016-5300");

  script_name(english:"Debian DLA-508-1 : 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:
"Two related issues have been discovered in Expat, a C library for
parsing XML.

CVE-2012-6702

This issue was introduced when CVE-2012-0876 was addressed. Stefan
Sørensen discovered that the use of the function XML_Parse()
seeds the random number generator generating repeated outputs for
rand() calls.

CVE-2016-5300

This is the product of an incomplete solution for CVE-2012-0876. The
parser poorly seeds the random number generator allowing an attacker
to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an XML file with
crafted identifiers.

You might need to manually restart programs and services using expat
libraries.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version
2.1.0-1+deb7u4.

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/2016/06/msg00009.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:N/I:N/A:C");
  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:N/I:N/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:"2016/06/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/06/09");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  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+deb7u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"lib64expat1", reference:"2.1.0-1+deb7u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"lib64expat1-dev", reference:"2.1.0-1+deb7u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libexpat1", reference:"2.1.0-1+deb7u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libexpat1-dev", reference:"2.1.0-1+deb7u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libexpat1-udeb", reference:"2.1.0-1+deb7u4")) 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");
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