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HistoryMar 24, 2013 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2652-1 (libxml2 - external entity expansion)

2013-03-2400:00:00
Copyright (c) 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH http://greenbone.net
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0.017 Low

EPSS

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86.4%

Brad Hill of iSEC Partners discovered that many XML implementations are
vulnerable to external entity expansion issues, which can be used for
various purposes such as firewall circumvention, disguising an IP
address, and denial-of-service. libxml2 was susceptible to these
problems when performing string substitution during entity expansion.

# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $Id: deb_2652.nasl 14276 2019-03-18 14:43:56Z cfischer $
# Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2652-1 using nvtgen 1.0
# Script version: 1.0
#
# Author:
# Greenbone Networks
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (c) 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH http://greenbone.net
# Text descriptions are largely excerpted from the referenced
# advisory, and are Copyright (c) the respective author(s)
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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#

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.892652");
  script_version("$Revision: 14276 $");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2013-0338", "CVE-2013-0339");
  script_name("Debian Security Advisory DSA 2652-1 (libxml2 - external entity expansion)");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2019-03-18 15:43:56 +0100 (Mon, 18 Mar 2019) $");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2013-03-24 00:00:00 +0100 (Sun, 24 Mar 2013)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2652.html");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (c) 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH http://greenbone.net");
  script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
  script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages", re:"ssh/login/release=DEB(6|7)");
  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"libxml2 on Debian Linux");
  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze7.

For the testing (wheezy) and unstable (sid) distributions, these problems
have been fixed in version 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxml2 packages.");
  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Brad Hill of iSEC Partners discovered that many XML implementations are
vulnerable to external entity expansion issues, which can be used for
various purposes such as firewall circumvention, disguising an IP
address, and denial-of-service. libxml2 was susceptible to these
problems when performing string substitution during entity expansion.");
  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  exit(0);
}

include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");

res = "";
report = "";
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2", ver:"2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze7", rls:"DEB6")) != NULL) {
  report += res;
}
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2-dbg", ver:"2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze7", rls:"DEB6")) != NULL) {
  report += res;
}
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2-dev", ver:"2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze7", rls:"DEB6")) != NULL) {
  report += res;
}
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2-doc", ver:"2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze7", rls:"DEB6")) != NULL) {
  report += res;
}
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2-utils", ver:"2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze7", rls:"DEB6")) != NULL) {
  report += res;
}
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"python-libxml2", ver:"2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze7", rls:"DEB6")) != NULL) {
  report += res;
}
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"python-libxml2-dbg", ver:"2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze7", rls:"DEB6")) != NULL) {
  report += res;
}
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2", ver:"2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1", rls:"DEB7")) != NULL) {
  report += res;
}
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2-dbg", ver:"2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1", rls:"DEB7")) != NULL) {
  report += res;
}
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2-dev", ver:"2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1", rls:"DEB7")) != NULL) {
  report += res;
}
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2-doc", ver:"2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1", rls:"DEB7")) != NULL) {
  report += res;
}
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2-utils", ver:"2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1", rls:"DEB7")) != NULL) {
  report += res;
}
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2-utils-dbg", ver:"2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1", rls:"DEB7")) != NULL) {
  report += res;
}
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"python-libxml2", ver:"2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1", rls:"DEB7")) != NULL) {
  report += res;
}
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"python-libxml2-dbg", ver:"2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1", rls:"DEB7")) != NULL) {
  report += res;
}

if(report != "") {
  security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
  exit(99);
}