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HistoryMay 06, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

FreeBSD : qt4-xml -- XML Entity Expansion Denial of Service (89709e58-d497-11e3-a3d5-5453ed2e2b49)

2014-05-0600:00:00
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Richard J. Moore reports :

QXmlSimpleReader in Qt versions prior to 5.2 supports expansion of internal entities in XML documents without placing restrictions to ensure the document does not cause excessive memory usage. If an application using this API processes untrusted data then the application may use unexpected amounts of memory if a malicious document is processed.

It is possible to construct XML documents using internal entities that consume large amounts of memory and other resources to process, this is known as the ‘Billion Laughs’ attack. Qt versions prior to 5.2 did not offer protection against this issue.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
#
# Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors
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# 1. Redistributions of source code (VuXML) must retain the above
#    copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
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# THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
# PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS
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include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(73881);
  script_version("1.4");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2013-4549");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : qt4-xml -- XML Entity Expansion Denial of Service (89709e58-d497-11e3-a3d5-5453ed2e2b49)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Richard J. Moore reports :

QXmlSimpleReader in Qt versions prior to 5.2 supports expansion of
internal entities in XML documents without placing restrictions to
ensure the document does not cause excessive memory usage. If an
application using this API processes untrusted data then the
application may use unexpected amounts of memory if a malicious
document is processed.

It is possible to construct XML documents using internal entities that
consume large amounts of memory and other resources to process, this
is known as the 'Billion Laughs' attack. Qt versions prior to 5.2 did
not offer protection against this issue."
  );
  # http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2013-December/000036.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?6cfa8350"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/89709e58-d497-11e3-a3d5-5453ed2e2b49.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?c0639c59"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:qt4-xml");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2013/12/05");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/05/05");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/05/06");
  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:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");

  exit(0);
}


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


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"qt4-xml<4.8.6")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
freebsdfreebsdqt4-xmlp-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:qt4-xml
freebsdfreebsdcpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd