Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.871572
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Update for xerces-c RHSA-2016:0430-01
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'xerces-c'; package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'xerces-c' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Xerces-C is a validating XML parser written in a portable subset of C++. It was discovered that the Xerces-C XML parser did not properly process certain XML input. By providing specially crafted XML data to an application using Xerces-C for XML processing, a remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause an application crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the application. (CVE-2016-0729) Red Hat would like to thank Gustavo Grieco for reporting this issue. All xerces-c users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the update, all applications using Xerces-C must be restarted for the update to take effect. Affected Software/OS: xerces-c on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) Solution: Please Install the Updated Packages. 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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