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Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0018: libxml2 (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0018)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 236689

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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2022:0018 advisory.

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

 CVE-2019-19956:
 xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.10 has a memory leak related to newDoc->oldNs.

 CVE-2019-20388:
 xmlSchemaPreRun in xmlschemas.c in libxml2 2.9.10 allows an xmlSchemaValidateStream memory leak.

 CVE-2020-24977:
 GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e.

 CVE-2020-7595:
 xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation.

 CVE-2022-23308:
 valid.c in libxml2 before 2.9.13 has a use-after-free of ID and IDREF attributes.

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://mirrors.aliyun.com/alinux/3/cve/alinux3-sa-20220018.xml

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 236689

File Name: alinux3_sa_2022-0018.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-24977

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libxml2-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-libxml2, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libxml2, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libxml2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libxml2-static, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-libxml2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libxml2-debugsource

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/24/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19956, CVE-2019-20388, CVE-2020-24977, CVE-2020-7595, CVE-2022-23308