Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.10.2015.0136
Category:	Mageia Linux Local Security Checks
Title:	Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2015-0136)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'xerces-c' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2015-0136 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'xerces-c' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2015-0136 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Updated xerces-c packages fix security vulnerability: Anton Rager and Jonathan Brossard from the Salesforce.com Product Security Team and Ben Laurie of Google discovered a denial of service vulnerability in xerces-c. The parser mishandles certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in a segmentation fault during a parse operation. An unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to cause an application using the xerces-c library to crash (CVE-2015-0252). Affected Software/OS: 'xerces-c' package(s) on Mageia 4. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 5.0 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-0252 BugTraq ID: 73252 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73252 Debian Security Information: DSA-3199 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3199 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36906/ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152882.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153887.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153829.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153094.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153923.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153903.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131756/Apache-Xerces-C-XML-Parser-Denial-Of-Service.html RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2015:1193 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1193.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032254 SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2016:0966 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00012.html
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