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FreeBSD Ports: libxml

🗓️ 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (c) 2012 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.comType 
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FreeBSD Ports: libxml is affected by a stack consumption vulnerability allowing attackers to cause a denial of service via a large depth of element declarations in a DTD

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#
#VID 5a7d4110-0b7a-11e1-846b-00235409fd3e
# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $
# Description: Auto generated from VID 5a7d4110-0b7a-11e1-846b-00235409fd3e
#
# Authors:
# Thomas Reinke <[email protected]>
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (c) 2012 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com
# Text descriptions are largely excerpted from the referenced
# advisories, 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 version 2,
# 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.
#

include("revisions-lib.inc");
tag_insight = "The following package is affected: libxml

CVE-2009-2414
Stack consumption vulnerability in libxml2 2.5.10, 2.6.16, 2.6.26,
2.6.27, and 2.6.32, and libxml 1.8.17, allows context-dependent
attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large
depth of element declarations in a DTD, related to a function
recursion, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.";
tag_solution = "Update your system with the appropriate patches or
software upgrades.";
tag_summary = "The remote host is missing an update to the system
as announced in the referenced advisory.";



if(description)
{
 script_id(70607);
 script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2012-02-13 01:48:16 +0100 (Mon, 13 Feb 2012)");
 script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2017-04-14 11:02:12 +0200 (Fri, 14 Apr 2017) $");
 script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
 script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
 script_cve_id("CVE-2009-2414");
 script_version("$Revision: 5956 $");
 script_name("FreeBSD Ports: libxml");


 script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

 script_copyright("Copyright (c) 2012 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com");
 script_family("FreeBSD Local Security Checks");
 script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
 script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/freebsdrel", "login/SSH/success");
 script_tag(name : "insight" , value : tag_insight);
 script_tag(name : "solution" , value : tag_solution);
 script_tag(name : "summary" , value : tag_summary);
 script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
 script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
 exit(0);
}

#
# The script code starts here
#

include("pkg-lib-bsd.inc");

txt = "";
vuln = 0;
bver = portver(pkg:"libxml");
if(!isnull(bver) && revcomp(a:bver, b:"1.8.17_5")<0) {
    txt += 'Package libxml version ' + bver + ' is installed which is known to be vulnerable.\n';
    vuln = 1;
}

if(vuln) {
    security_message(data:string(txt));
} else if (__pkg_match) {
    exit(99); # Not vulnerable.
}

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14 Apr 2017 00:00Current
6.8Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.8
EPSS0.01289
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