Debian DSA-4407-1 : xmltooling - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 122794

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Ross Geerlings discovered that the XMLTooling library didn't correctly handle exceptions on malformed XML declarations, which could result in denial of service against the application using XMLTooling.

Solution

Upgrade the xmltooling packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.0-4+deb9u2.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/xmltooling

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/xmltooling

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4407

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 122794

File Name: debian_DSA-4407.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/13/2019

Updated: 2/5/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xmltooling, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/12/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9628

DSA: 4407