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RHEL 4 / 5 : expat (RHSA-2009:1625)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 43046

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for expat.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 / 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2009:1625 advisory.

 - expat: buffer over-read and crash in big2_toUtf8() on XML with malformed UTF-8 sequences (CVE-2009-3560)

 - expat: buffer over-read and crash on XML with malformed UTF-8 sequences (CVE-2009-3720)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL expat package based on the guidance in RHSA-2009:1625.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3aa169a7

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531697

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533174

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1625

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 43046

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2009-1625.nasl

Version: 1.29

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/8/2009

Updated: 4/21/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-3720

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:expat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:expat-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/3/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3560, CVE-2009-3720

BID: 36097, 37203

RHSA: 2009:1625