Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2014-341)
🗓️ 08 Sep 2015 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AGType
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| alas | www.alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2014-341.html |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.120474");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-0191");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2015-09-08 11:27:15 +0000 (Tue, 08 Sep 2015)");
script_version("2025-01-23T05:37:38+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-01-23 05:37:38 +0000 (Thu, 23 Jan 2025)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_name("Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2014-341)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/amazon_linux", "ssh/login/release");
script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"ALAS-2014-341");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2014-341.html");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'libxml2' package(s) announced via the ALAS-2014-341 advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"It was discovered that libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML files, incorrectly performs entity substituton in the doctype prolog, even if the application using libxml2 disabled any entity substitution. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted XML file that, when processed, would lead to the exhaustion of CPU and memory resources or file descriptors.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'libxml2' package(s) on Amazon Linux.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "AMAZON") {
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libxml2", rpm:"libxml2~2.9.1~1.1.30.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libxml2-debuginfo", rpm:"libxml2-debuginfo~2.9.1~1.1.30.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libxml2-devel", rpm:"libxml2-devel~2.9.1~1.1.30.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libxml2-python", rpm:"libxml2-python~2.9.1~1.1.30.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libxml2-static", rpm:"libxml2-static~2.9.1~1.1.30.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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