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HistoryJun 07, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

expat - security update

2016-06-0700:00:00
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7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.8 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

0.007 Low

EPSS

Percentile

78.3%

Two related issues have been discovered in Expat, a C library for parsing
XML.

  • CVE-2012-6702
    It was introduced when
    CVE-2012-0876
    was addressed. Stefan Sørensen discovered that the use of the function
    XML_Parse() seeds the random number generator generating repeated outputs
    for rand() calls.
  • CVE-2016-5300
    It is the product of an incomplete solution for
    CVE-2012-0876.
    The parser poorly seeds the random number generator allowing an attacker to
    cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an XML file with crafted
    identifiers.

You might need to manually restart programs and services using expat
libraries.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.1.0-6+deb8u3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.1.1-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your expat packages.

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.8 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

0.007 Low

EPSS

Percentile

78.3%