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VPR Score: 6.7
Synopsis
The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
* libxml2: Use after free triggered by XPointer paths beginning with range-to * libxml2: Use after free in xmlXPathCompOpEvalPositionalPredicate() function in xpath.c * libxml2:
DoS caused by incorrect error detection during XZ decompression * libxml2: NULL pointer dereference in xmlXPathCompOpEval() function in xpath.c * libxml2: Unrestricted memory usage in xz_head() function in xzlib.c * libxml2: Infinite loop caused by incorrect error detection during LZMA decompression
Solution
Update the affected packages.