Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.703493
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3493-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'xerces-c' package(s) announced via the DSA-3493-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'xerces-c' package(s) announced via the DSA-3493-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Gustavo Grieco discovered that xerces-c, a validating XML parser library for C++, mishandles certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in buffer overflows during processing and error reporting. These flaws could lead to a denial of service in applications using the xerces-c library, or potentially, to the execution of arbitrary code. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.1-3+deb7u2. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.1-5.1+deb8u1. We recommend that you upgrade your xerces-c packages. Affected Software/OS: 'xerces-c' package(s) on Debian 7, Debian 8. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 7.5 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-0729 BugTraq ID: 83423 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83423 Bugtraq: 20160225 CVE-2016-0729: Apache Xerces-C XML Parser Crashes on Malformed Input (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537620/100/0/threaded Debian Security Information: DSA-3493 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3493 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/182597.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/182062.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/182131.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-46 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135949/Apache-Xerces-C-XML-Parser-Buffer-Overflow.html https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035113 SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2016:0966 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00012.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2016:1121 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00086.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2016:1808 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00053.html
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