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RHEL 7 : expat (RHSA-2020:1011)

high Nessus Plugin ID 135066

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1011 advisory.

 - Buffer overflow in the XML parser in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.7, and Thunderbird before 31.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by providing a large amount of compressed XML data, a related issue to CVE-2015-1283. (CVE-2015-2716)

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

Solution

Update the affected expat, expat-devel and / or expat-static packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2716

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1011

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 135066

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1011.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/1/2020

Updated: 5/25/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-2716

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:expat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:expat-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:expat-static

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: 3/31/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2716

BID: 74611

IAVA: 2015-A-0099-S

RHSA: 2020:1011