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HistoryApr 23, 2009 - 12:00 a.m.

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libxml2 (MDVSA-2008:212)

2009-04-2300:00:00
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11

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");
VendorProductVersionCPE
mandrivalinuxlib64xml2-develp-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64xml2-devel
mandrivalinuxlib64xml2_2p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64xml2_2
mandrivalinuxlibxml2-develp-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libxml2-devel
mandrivalinuxlibxml2-pythonp-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libxml2-python
mandrivalinuxlibxml2-utilsp-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libxml2-utils
mandrivalinuxlibxml2_2p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libxml2_2
mandrivalinux2009.0cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2009.0

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%