Fedora 11 : xerces-c-2.8.0-5.fc11 (2009-8345)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40756

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes :

- Bug #515515 - CVE-2009-1885 xerces-c, xerces-c27: Stack overflow when parsing recursive XML structures

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected xerces-c package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515515

http://www.nessus.org/u?456c7ab9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40756

File Name: fedora_2009-8345.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/25/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xerces-c, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/7/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1885

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2009-8345