PSF-2014-1 CVE-2013-0340 Billion Laughs fixed in Expat 2.4.0

expat 2.1.0 and earlier does not properly handle entities expansion unless an application developer uses the XMLSetEntityDeclHandler function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or read arbitrary files via a...

CVE-2013-0340

expat before version 2.4.0 does not properly handle entities expansion unless an application developer uses the XMLSetEntityDeclHandler function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or read arbitrary files via a...

CVE-2013-0340

expat before version 2.4.0 does not properly handle entities expansion unless an application developer uses the XMLSetEntityDeclHandler function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or read arbitrary files via a...

Amazon Linux AMI : expat (ALAS-2012-89)

A denial of service flaw was found in the implementation of hash arrays in Expat. An attacker could use this flaw to make an application using Expat consume an excessive amount of CPU time by providing a specially crafted XML file that triggers multiple hash function collisions. To mitigate this...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : expat (ELSA-2012-0731)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2012-0731 advisory. - use symbol version for XMLSetHashSalt CVE-2012-0876, 816306 - add security fix for CVE-2012-1148 811825 Tenable has extracted the preceding...

Oracle Linux 5 : expat (ELSA-2009-1625)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2009-1625 advisory. - add security fix for CVE-2009-3560 531710 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory. Not...

Oracle Linux 5 : PyXML (ELSA-2010-0002)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2010-0002 advisory. 0.8.4-4.2 - Use system expat library Resolves: 531852 0.8.4-4.1 - Fix buffer over read Resolves: 531852 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block...

Oracle Linux 4 : python (ELSA-2011-0491)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2011:0491 : Updated python packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores,...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : python (MDVSA-2013:117)

Updated python packages fix security vulnerabilities : A race condition was found in the way the Python distutils module set file permissions during the creation of the .pypirc file. If a local user had access to the home directory of another user who is running distutils, they could use this fla...

texproc/expat2 -- billion laugh attack

Kurt Seifried reports: So here are the CVE's for the two big ones, libxml2 and expat. Both are affected by the expansion of internal entities which can be used to consume resources and external entities which can cause a denial of service against other services, be used to port scan, etc.. A...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : expat (SAT Patch Number 6200)

This update of expat fixes the following bugs : - hash collision attack that could lead to exessive CPU usage. CVE-2012-0876 - expat didn't close file descriptors in some cases. CVE-2012-1147 - specially crafted xml files could lead to a memory leak CVE-2012-1148 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

neon: billion laughs DoS attack

neon before 0.28.6, when expat is used, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service memory and CPU consumption via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to...

UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6702

Expat, when used in a parser that has not called XMLSetHashSalt or passed it a seed of 0, makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via vectors involving use of the srand function...

CVE-2012-6702

Expat, when used in a parser that has not called XMLSetHashSalt or passed it a seed of 0, makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via vectors involving use of the srand function...

VMSA-2012-0016 : VMware security updates for vSphere API and ESX Service Console

a. VMware vSphere API denial of service vulnerability The VMware vSphere API contains a denial of service vulnerability. This issue allows an unauthenticated user to send a maliciously crafted API request and disable the host daemon. Exploitation of the issue would prevent management activities o...

VMSA-2012-0016: VMware security updates for vSphere API and ESX Service Console

The remote ESXi is missing one or more security related Updates from VMSA-2012-0016. Summary VMware has updated the vSphere API to address a denial of service vulnerability in ESX and ESXi. VMware has also updated the ESX Service Console to include several open source security updates. Relevant...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : python2.4 vulnerabilities (USN-1613-2)

USN-1613-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Python 2.5. This update provides the corresponding updates for Python 2.4. It was discovered that Python would prepend an empty string to sys.path under certain circumstances. A local attacker with write access to the current working directory could exploit thi...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : python2.5 vulnerabilities (USN-1613-1)

It was discovered that Python would prepend an empty string to sys.path under certain circumstances. A local attacker with write access to the current working directory could exploit this to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-5983 It was discovered that the audioop module did not correctly perform...

USN-1613-2: Python 2.4 vulnerabilities

USN-1613-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Python 2.5. This update provides the corresponding updates for Python 2.4. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Python would prepend an empty string to sys.path under certain circumstances. A local attacker with write access to the current working...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201209-06 (expat)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 201209-06. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 E-Soft Inc. 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 OR GPL-3.0-only...