Debian Security Advisory DSA 2255-1 (libxml2)

The remote host is missing an update to libxml2 announced via advisory DSA 2255-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb22551.nasl 6613 2017-07-07 12:08:40Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2255-1 libxml2 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2011 E-Soft Inc...

Debian DSA-2255-1 : libxml2 - buffer overflow

Chris Evans discovered that libxml was vulnerable to buffer overflows, which allowed a crafted XML input file to potentially execute arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security...