Slackware 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current : libxml2 (SSA:2017-266-01)

New libxml2 packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2017-266-01. The text itself is...

[slackware-security] libxml2

New libxml2 packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libxml2-2.9.5-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes some security issues: Detect infinite recursion in...

Remote Code Execution (RCE)

The nokogiri gem is susceptible to Remote Code Execution RCE. These vulnerabilities are possible because the gem contains a version of the libxml2 C package which is affected by CVE-2017-7375 and CVE-2017-7376 respectively. These vulnerabilities allow a malicious user to pass a XML file to execut...

Remote Code Execution (RCE)

The nokogiri gem is susceptible to remote code execution RCE attacks. The attacks exist because the library uses the C package libxml2 which is vulnerable to CVE-2017-0663, allowing a malicious user to pass a XML file to execute arbitrary code or crash the application...

Internet Bug Bounty: Denial of service in libxml2, using malicious lzma file to consume available system memory

Reported to the libxml2 devs on 23 August 2017 Patched on 7 September 2017 It was discovered through fuzzing that malicious LZMA compressed files could consume large amounts of memory when decompressed thus posing a DoS risk. I am unsure if a CVE will be assigned in this case. od -tx1 ./test000...

USN-3424-1: libxml2 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a type confusion error existed in libxml2. An attacker could use this to specially construct XML data that could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-0663 It was discovered that libxml2 did not properly validate parsed entity references. An...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3424-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : libxml2 vulnerabilities (USN-3424-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3424-1 advisory. It was discovered that a type confusion error existed in libxml2. An attacker could use this to specially construct XML data that could cause...

Amazon Linux AMI : xmlsec1 (ALAS-2017-890)

It was discovered xmlsec1's use of libxml2 inadvertently enabled external entity expansion XXE along with validation. An attacker could craft an XML file that would cause xmlsec1 to try and read local files or HTTP/FTP URLs, leading to information disclosure or denial of service. CVE-2017-1000061...

Medium: xmlsec1

Issue Overview: It was discovered xmlsec1's use of libxml2 inadvertently enabled external entity expansion XXE along with validation. An attacker could craft an XML file that would cause xmlsec1 to try and read local files or HTTP/FTP URLs, leading to information disclosure or denial of service...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : xmlsec1 (EulerOS-SA-2017-1194)

According to the version of the xmlsec1 packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - It was discovered xmlsec1's use of libxml2 inadvertently enabled external entity expansion XXE along with validation. An attacker could craft an X...

xmlsec1 security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2017:2492 An update for xmlsec1 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

Updated xmlsec1 packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered xmlsec1's use of libxml2 inadvertently enabled external entity expansion XXE along with validation. An attacker could craft an XML file that would cause xmlsec1 to try and read local files or HTTP/FTP URLs, leading to information disclosure or denial of service CVE-2017-1000061...

Internet Bug Bounty: CVE-2017-5969: libxml2 when used in recover mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference)

I first reported this bug to the developers on 20 November 2015. A patch was finally committed on 7 June 2017 here. The caveat here is that this only happens in recover mode which the developers say no sane person should ever use in production and/or against untrusted inputs. A CVE was assigned i...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3952-1] libxml2 security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3952-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso August 23, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3952-1] libxml2 security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3952-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso August 23, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DSA-3952-1 libxml2 - security update

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Debian DSA-3952-1 : libxml2 - security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML or HTML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would cause a denial-of-service against the...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3952-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Debian DLA-1060-1 : libxml2 security update

CVE-2017-0663 Invalid casting of different structs could enable an attacker to remotely execute some code within the context of an unprivileged process. CVE-2017-7376 Incorrect limit used for port values. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy9. We...