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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.64608
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:200 (libxml)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update to libxml;announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:200.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update to libxml
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:200.

Vulnerability Insight:
Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in libxml:

Stack consumption vulnerability in libxml2 2.5.10, 2.6.16, 2.6.26,
2.6.27, and 2.6.32, and libxml 1.8.17, allows context-dependent
attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a
large depth of element declarations in a DTD, related to a function
recursion, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework
(CVE-2009-2414).

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in libxml2 2.5.10, 2.6.16,
2.6.26, 2.6.27, and 2.6.32, and libxml 1.8.17, allow context-dependent
attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted
(1) Notation or (2) Enumeration attribute types in an XML file, as
demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework (CVE-2009-2416).

This update provides a solution to these vulnerabilities.

Affected: 2008.1, 2009.0, 2009.1, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0,
Enterprise Server 5.0

Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

CVSS Score:
4.3

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-2414
20091120 VMSA-2009-0016 VMware vCenter and ESX update release and vMA patch release address multiple security issue in third party components
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded
35036
http://secunia.com/advisories/35036
36010
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36010
36207
http://secunia.com/advisories/36207
36338
http://secunia.com/advisories/36338
36417
http://secunia.com/advisories/36417
36631
http://secunia.com/advisories/36631
37346
http://secunia.com/advisories/37346
37471
http://secunia.com/advisories/37471
ADV-2009-2420
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2420
ADV-2009-3184
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184
ADV-2009-3217
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3217
ADV-2009-3316
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316
APPLE-SA-2009-11-09-1
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html
APPLE-SA-2009-11-11-1
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00001.html
APPLE-SA-2010-06-21-1
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Jun/msg00003.html
DSA-1859
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1859
FEDORA-2009-8491
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00537.html
FEDORA-2009-8498
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00547.html
FEDORA-2009-8580
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00642.html
SUSE-SR:2009:015
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-09/msg00001.html
USN-815-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-815-1
[debian-bugs-dist] 20090810 Bug#540865: libxml2: CVE-2009-2414, CVE-2009-2416 pointer-user-after-free and stack overflow because of function recursion
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist%40lists.debian.org/msg678527.html
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/08/stable-update-security-fixes.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3949
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4225
http://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2009/vulnerability2009085.html
http://www.codenomicon.com/labs/xml/
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/080509-xml-flaw.html
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2009-2414-2416.html
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515195
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=489f9671e71cc44a97b23111b3126ac8a1e21a59
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10129
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10129
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8639
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8639
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-2416
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515205
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7783
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7783
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9262
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9262
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