Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.61427
Category:	Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:	Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2008-7062 (libxslt)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to libxslt announced via advisory FEDORA-2008-7062. This C library allows to transform XML files into other XML files (or HTML, text, ...) using the standard XSLT stylesheet transformation mechanism. To use it you need to have a version of libxml2 >= 2.6.27 installed. The xsltproc command is a command line interface to the XSLT engine Update Information: fix for CVE-2008-2935 problem in exslt rc4 crypto extensions ChangeLog: * Fri Aug 1 2008 Daniel Veillard 1.1.24-2.fc9 - CVE-2008-2935 fix * Tue May 13 2008 Daniel Veillard 1.1.24-1.fc9 - release of 1.1.24 - fixes a few bugs including the key initialization problem - tentative fix for multiarch devel problems References: [ 1 ] Bug #455848 - CVE-2008-2935 libxslt: buffer overflow in libexslt RC4 encryption/decryption functions https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455848 Solution: Apply the appropriate updates. This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update libxslt' at the command line. For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2008-7062 Risk factor : High CVSS Score: 7.5
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-2935 1020596 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020596 20080731 [oCERT-2008-009] libxslt heap overflow http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494976/100/0/threaded 20080801 libxslt heap overflow http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495018/100/0/threaded 20081027 rPSA-2008-0306-1 libxslt http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497829/100/0/threaded 30467 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30467 31230 http://secunia.com/advisories/31230 31310 http://secunia.com/advisories/31310 31331 http://secunia.com/advisories/31331 31363 http://secunia.com/advisories/31363 31395 http://secunia.com/advisories/31395 31399 http://secunia.com/advisories/31399 32453 http://secunia.com/advisories/32453 4078 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4078 ADV-2008-2266 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2266/references DSA-1624 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1624 FEDORA-2008-7029 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-August/msg00092.html FEDORA-2008-7062 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-August/msg00118.html GLSA-200808-06 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-06.xml MDVSA-2008:160 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:160 RHSA-2008:0649 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0649.html USN-633-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-633-1 http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0306 http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-009.html http://www.ocert.org/patches/exslt_crypt.patch http://www.scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2008-003.html libxslt-multiple-crypto-bo(44141) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44141 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10827 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10827
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