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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libxml (MDVSA-2011:131-1)

2011-09-0600:00:00
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46

CVSS2

9.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

0.007

Percentile

80.6%

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in libxml/libxml2 :

Integer overflow in xpath.c in libxml2 2.6.x through 2.6.32 and 2.7.x through 2.7.8, and libxml 1.8.16 and earlier, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted XML file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow when adding a new namespace node, related to handling of XPath expressions (CVE-2011-1944).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Update :

Packages were misssing for Mandriva Linux 2011 with the MDVSA-2011:131 advisory which are now being provided.

#%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-2011:131. 
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(56085);
  script_version("1.12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2011-1944");
  script_bugtraq_id(48056);
  script_xref(name:"MDVSA", value:"2011:131-1");

  script_name(english:"Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libxml (MDVSA-2011:131-1)");
  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:
"Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in
libxml/libxml2 :

Integer overflow in xpath.c in libxml2 2.6.x through 2.6.32 and 2.7.x
through 2.7.8, and libxml 1.8.16 and earlier, allows context-dependent
attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute
arbitrary code via a crafted XML file that triggers a heap-based
buffer overflow when adding a new namespace node, related to handling
of XPath expressions (CVE-2011-1944).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Update :

Packages were misssing for Mandriva Linux 2011 with the MDVSA-2011:131
advisory which are now being provided."
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64xml1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64xml1-devel");
  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:libxml1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libxml1-devel");
  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:2011");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/10/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2011/09/06");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2021 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:"MDK2011", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64xml1-1.8.17-18.1-mdv2011.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2011", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64xml1-devel-1.8.17-18.1-mdv2011.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2011", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64xml2-devel-2.7.8-6.1-mdv2011.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2011", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64xml2_2-2.7.8-6.1-mdv2011.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2011", cpu:"i386", reference:"libxml1-1.8.17-18.1-mdv2011.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2011", cpu:"i386", reference:"libxml1-devel-1.8.17-18.1-mdv2011.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2011", cpu:"i386", reference:"libxml2-devel-2.7.8-6.1-mdv2011.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2011", reference:"libxml2-python-2.7.8-6.1-mdv2011.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2011", reference:"libxml2-utils-2.7.8-6.1-mdv2011.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2011", cpu:"i386", reference:"libxml2_2-2.7.8-6.1-mdv2011.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");

CVSS2

9.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

0.007

Percentile

80.6%