Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0057: xmlrpc-c (ALINUX3-SA-2025:0057)

high Nessus Plugin ID 236050

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2025:0057 advisory.

Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

CVE-2024-8176:
A stack overflow vulnerability exists in the libexpat library due to the way it handles recursive entity expansion in XML documents. When parsing an XML document with deeply nested entity references, libexpat can be forced to recurse indefinitely, exhausting the stack space and causing a crash. This issue could lead to denial of service (DoS) or, in some cases, exploitable memory corruption, depending on the environment and library usage.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 236050

File Name: alinux3_sa_2025-0057.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8176

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: cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xmlrpc-c-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xmlrpc-c-apps-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xmlrpc-c-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xmlrpc-c-client, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xmlrpc-c-client%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xmlrpc-c-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xmlrpc-c-c%2b%2b-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xmlrpc-c-doc, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xmlrpc-c-client%2b%2b-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xmlrpc-c-apps, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xmlrpc-c-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xmlrpc-c, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:xmlrpc-c-c%2b%2b

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/25/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-8176

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