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HistoryOct 13, 2013 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2779-1 (libxml2 - denial of service)

2013-10-1300:00:00
Copyright (c) 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH http://greenbone.net
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5

0.046 Low

EPSS

Percentile

91.7%

Aki Helin of OUSPG discovered many out-of-bounds read issues in libxml2,
the GNOME project’s XML parser library, which can lead to denial of
service issues when handling XML documents that end abruptly.

# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $Id: deb_2779.nasl 6611 2017-07-07 12:07:20Z cfischer $
# Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2779-1 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.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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#
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#

include("revisions-lib.inc");

tag_affected  = "libxml2 on Debian Linux";
tag_insight   = "XML is a metalanguage to let you design your own markup language.
A regular markup language defines a way to describe information in
a certain class of documents (eg HTML). XML lets you define your
own customized markup languages for many classes of document. It
can do this because it's written in SGML, the international standard
metalanguage for markup languages.";
tag_solution  = "For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze8.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu2.

For the testing (jessie) and unstable (sid) distributions, this
problem has been fixed in version 2.9.1+dfsg1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxml2 packages.";
tag_summary   = "Aki Helin of OUSPG discovered many out-of-bounds read issues in libxml2,
the GNOME project's XML parser library, which can lead to denial of
service issues when handling XML documents that end abruptly.";
tag_vuldetect = "This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.";

if(description)
{
    script_id(892779);
    script_version("$Revision: 6611 $");
    script_cve_id("CVE-2013-2877");
    script_name("Debian Security Advisory DSA 2779-1 (libxml2 - denial of service)");
    script_tag(name: "last_modification", value:"$Date: 2017-07-07 14:07:20 +0200 (Fri, 07 Jul 2017) $");
    script_tag(name: "creation_date", value:"2013-10-13 00:00:00 +0200 (Sun, 13 Oct 2013)");
    script_tag(name: "cvss_base", value:"5.0");
    script_tag(name: "cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");

    script_xref(name: "URL", value: "http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2779.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");
    script_tag(name: "affected",  value: tag_affected);
    script_tag(name: "insight",   value: tag_insight);
#    script_tag(name: "impact",    value: tag_impact);
    script_tag(name: "solution",  value: tag_solution);
    script_tag(name: "summary",   value: tag_summary);
    script_tag(name: "vuldetect", value: tag_vuldetect);
    script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
    script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

    exit(0);
}

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

res = "";
report = "";
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2", ver:"2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze8", rls:"DEB6.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2-dbg", ver:"2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze8", rls:"DEB6.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2-dev", ver:"2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze8", rls:"DEB6.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2-doc", ver:"2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze8", rls:"DEB6.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2-utils", ver:"2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze8", rls:"DEB6.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"python-libxml2", ver:"2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze8", rls:"DEB6.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"python-libxml2-dbg", ver:"2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze8", rls:"DEB6.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2", ver:"2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu2", rls:"DEB7.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2-dbg", ver:"2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu2", rls:"DEB7.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2-dev", ver:"2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu2", rls:"DEB7.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2-doc", ver:"2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu2", rls:"DEB7.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2-utils", ver:"2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu2", rls:"DEB7.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libxml2-utils-dbg", ver:"2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu2", rls:"DEB7.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"python-libxml2", ver:"2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu2", rls:"DEB7.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"python-libxml2-dbg", ver:"2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu2", rls:"DEB7.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}

if (report != "") {
    security_message(data:report);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
    exit(99); # Not vulnerable.
}