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Debian DSA-2424-1 : libxml-atom-perl - XML external entity expansion

high Nessus Plugin ID 58199

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that the XML::Atom Perl module did not disable external entities when parsing XML from potentially untrusted sources.
This may allow attackers to gain read access to otherwise protected resources, depending on how the library is used.

Solution

Upgrade the libxml-atom-perl packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.37-1+squeeze1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/libxml-atom-perl

https://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2424

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 58199

File Name: debian_DSA-2424.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/5/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxml-atom-perl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 3/4/2012

Reference Information

DSA: 2424