CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
61.5%
The remote host is missing an update to the system
as announced in the referenced advisory.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 E-Soft Inc.
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.70607");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2012-02-13 01:48:16 +0100 (Mon, 13 Feb 2012)");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-26 05:05:09 +0000 (Wed, 26 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-2414");
script_version("2023-07-26T05:05:09+0000");
script_name("FreeBSD Ports: libxml");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2012 E-Soft Inc.");
script_family("FreeBSD Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/freebsd", "ssh/login/freebsdrel");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The following package is affected: libxml
CVE-2009-2414
Stack consumption vulnerability in libxml2 2.5.10, 2.6.16, 2.6.26,
2.6.27, and 2.6.32, and libxml 1.8.17, allows context-dependent
attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large
depth of element declarations in a DTD, related to a function
recursion, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update your system with the appropriate patches or
software upgrades.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update to the system
as announced in the referenced advisory.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-bsd.inc");
vuln = FALSE;
txt = "";
bver = portver(pkg:"libxml");
if(!isnull(bver) && revcomp(a:bver, b:"1.8.17_5")<0) {
txt += 'Package libxml version ' + bver + ' is installed which is known to be vulnerable.\n';
vuln = TRUE;
}
if(vuln) {
security_message(data:txt);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}