Mageia Linux Local Security Checks mgasa-2016-0088
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# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
#
# Mageia Linux security check
#
# Authors:
# Eero Volotinen <[email protected]>
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (C) 2016 Eero Volotinen, http://www.solinor.com
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
# (or any later version), as published by the Free Software Foundation.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
###############################################################################
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.131249");
script_version("2020-06-09T14:44:58+0000");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-03-03 14:39:18 +0200 (Thu, 03 Mar 2016)");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2020-06-09 14:44:58 +0000 (Tue, 09 Jun 2020)");
script_name("Mageia Linux Local Check: mgasa-2016-0088");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Updated xerces-c packages fix security vulnerability: The Xerces-C XML parser mishandles certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in buffer overflows during processing and error reporting. The overflows can manifest as a segmentation fault or as memory corruption during a parse operation. The bugs allow for a denial of service attack in many applications by an unauthenticated attacker, and could conceivably result in remote code execution (CVE-2016-0729).");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages to the latest available version.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0088.html");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-0729");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/mageia_linux", "ssh/login/release", re:"ssh/login/release=MAGEIA5");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mageia Linux Local Security Checks mgasa-2016-0088");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Eero Volotinen");
script_family("Mageia Linux Local Security Checks");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release) exit(0);
res = "";
if(release == "MAGEIA5")
{
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"xerces-c", rpm:"xerces-c~3.1.2~1.1.mga5", rls:"MAGEIA5")) != NULL) {
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if (__pkg_match) exit(99);
exit(0);
}