OracleVM 3.3 : libxml2 (OVMSA-2015-0152)

high Nessus Plugin ID 87232

Synopsis

The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :

- Update doc/redhat.gif in tarball

- Add libxml2-oracle-enterprise.patch and update logos in tarball

- Fix a series of CVEs (rhbz#1286495)

- CVE-2015-7941 Cleanup conditional section error handling

- CVE-2015-8317 Fail parsing early on if encoding conversion failed

- CVE-2015-7942 Another variation of overflow in Conditional sections

- CVE-2015-7942 Fix an error in previous Conditional section patch

- Fix parsing short unclosed comment uninitialized access

- CVE-2015-7498 Avoid processing entities after encoding conversion failures

- CVE-2015-7497 Avoid an heap buffer overflow in xmlDictComputeFastQKey

- CVE-2015-5312 Another entity expansion issue

- CVE-2015-7499 Add xmlHaltParser to stop the parser

- CVE-2015-7499 Detect incoherency on GROW

- CVE-2015-7500 Fix memory access error due to incorrect entities boundaries

- CVE-2015-8242 Buffer overead with HTML parser in push mode

- Libxml violates the zlib interface and crashes

Solution

Update the affected libxml2 / libxml2-python packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1268d569

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 87232

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0152.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Published: 12/8/2015

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:libxml2, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:libxml2-python, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.3

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/18/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5312, CVE-2015-7497, CVE-2015-7498, CVE-2015-7499, CVE-2015-7500, CVE-2015-7941, CVE-2015-7942, CVE-2015-8242, CVE-2015-8317