Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2009-3560

medium Nessus Plugin ID 217175

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- The big2_toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, related to the doProlog function in lib/xmlparse.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625 and CVE-2009-3720. (CVE-2009-3560)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2009-3560

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-3560

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2009-3560

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 217175

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2009_3560.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/3/2025

Updated: 9/2/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-3560

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:14.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:matanza, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:sitecopy, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swish-e, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:coin3, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:matanza, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-c, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cableswig, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxmltok, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:coin3, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cadaver

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/17/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3560