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
0.034 Low
EPSS
Percentile
91.5%
libxml2 version 2.7.0 and 2.7.1 did not properly handle predefined entities definitions in entities, which allowed context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via certain XML documents (CVE-2008-4409).
The updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2008:212.
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(36844);
script_version("1.13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-4409");
script_xref(name:"MDVSA", value:"2008:212");
script_name(english:"Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libxml2 (MDVSA-2008:212)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security
updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"libxml2 version 2.7.0 and 2.7.1 did not properly handle predefined
entities definitions in entities, which allowed context-dependent
attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and
application crash) via certain XML documents (CVE-2008-4409).
The updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue."
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_cwe_id(399);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64xml2-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64xml2_2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libxml2-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libxml2-python");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libxml2-utils");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libxml2_2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2009.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/10/15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/04/23");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Mandriva Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/Mandrake/release", "Host/Mandrake/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Mandriva / Mandake Linux");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu !~ "^(amd64|i[3-6]86|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Mandriva / Mandrake Linux", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64xml2-devel-2.7.1-1.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64xml2_2-2.7.1-1.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"libxml2-devel-2.7.1-1.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", reference:"libxml2-python-2.7.1-1.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", reference:"libxml2-utils-2.7.1-1.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"libxml2_2-2.7.1-1.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
mandriva | linux | lib64xml2-devel | p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64xml2-devel |
mandriva | linux | lib64xml2_2 | p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64xml2_2 |
mandriva | linux | libxml2-devel | p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libxml2-devel |
mandriva | linux | libxml2-python | p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libxml2-python |
mandriva | linux | libxml2-utils | p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libxml2-utils |
mandriva | linux | libxml2_2 | p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libxml2_2 |
mandriva | linux | 2009.0 | cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2009.0 |