5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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
0.03 Low
EPSS
Percentile
90.9%
Issue Overview:
A null pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() function of libxml2 when parsing invalid XPath expression. Applications processing untrusted XSL format inputs with the use of libxml2 library may be vulnerable to denial of service attack due to crash of the application.(CVE-2018-14404)
Affected Packages:
libxml2
Issue Correction:
Run yum update libxml2 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
libxml2-devel-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.i686
libxml2-static-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.i686
libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.i686
libxml2-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.i686
libxml2-python26-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.i686
libxml2-python27-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.i686
src:
libxml2-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.src
x86_64:
libxml2-static-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-python27-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-devel-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.x86_64
libxml2-python26-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.x86_64
Red Hat: CVE-2018-14404
Mitre: CVE-2018-14404
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | libxml2-devel | < 2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1 | libxml2-devel-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | libxml2-static | < 2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1 | libxml2-static-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | libxml2-debuginfo | < 2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1 | libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | libxml2 | < 2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1 | libxml2-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | libxml2-python26 | < 2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1 | libxml2-python26-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | libxml2-python27 | < 2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1 | libxml2-python27-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | x86_64 | libxml2-static | < 2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1 | libxml2-static-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.x86_64.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | x86_64 | libxml2 | < 2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1 | libxml2-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.x86_64.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | x86_64 | libxml2-python27 | < 2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1 | libxml2-python27-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.x86_64.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | x86_64 | libxml2-debuginfo | < 2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1 | libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.1-6.3.52.amzn1.x86_64.rpm |
5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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
0.03 Low
EPSS
Percentile
90.9%