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RHEL 7 : xerces-c (RHSA-2015:1193)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 84465

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Synopsis

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

Description

An updated xerces-c package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Xerces-C is a validating XML parser written in a portable subset of C++.

A flaw was found in the way the Xerces-C XML parser processed certain XML documents. A remote attacker could provide specially crafted XML input that, when parsed by an application using Xerces-C, would cause that application to crash. (CVE-2015-0252)

All xerces-c users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1193

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-0252

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 84465

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-1193.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/30/2015

Updated: 2/5/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-c, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-c-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-c-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xerces-c-doc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.1, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.2, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.7

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/29/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/24/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0252

BID: 73252

RHSA: 2015:1193