Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-4449 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in multiple products

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include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(93145);
  script_version("2.6");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/04/11 17:23:06");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-1762", "CVE-2016-1833", "CVE-2016-1834", "CVE-2016-1835", "CVE-2016-1836", "CVE-2016-1837", "CVE-2016-1838", "CVE-2016-1839", "CVE-2016-1840", "CVE-2016-3627", "CVE-2016-3705", "CVE-2016-4449", "CVE-2016-4483");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : libxml2 -- multiple vulnerabilities (e195679d-045b-4953-bb33-be0073ba2ac6)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Daniel Veillard reports :

More format string warnings with possible format string vulnerability
(David Kilzer)

Avoid building recursive entities (Daniel Veillard)

Heap-based buffer overread in htmlCurrentChar (Pranjal Jumde)

Heap-based buffer-underreads due to xmlParseName (David Kilzer)

Heap use-after-free in xmlSAX2AttributeNs (Pranjal Jumde)

Heap use-after-free in htmlParsePubidLiteral and htmlParseSystemiteral
(Pranjal Jumde)

Fix some format string warnings with possible format string
vulnerability (David Kilzer)

Detect change of encoding when parsing HTML names (Hugh Davenport)

Fix inappropriate fetch of entities content (Daniel Veillard)

Bug 759398: Heap use-after-free in xmlDictComputeFastKey (Pranjal
Jumde)

Bug 758605: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlDictAddString (Pranjal
Jumde)

Bug 758588: Heap-based buffer overread in
xmlParserPrintFileContextInternal (David Kilzer)

Bug 757711: heap-buffer-overflow in xmlFAParsePosCharGroup (Pranjal
Jumde)

Add missing increments of recursion depth counter to XML parser.
(Peter Simons)

Fix NULL pointer deref in XPointer range-to"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2016-May/msg00023.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759398"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758605"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758588"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757711"
  );
  # https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/patch/?id=d8083bf77955b7879c1290f0c0a24ab8cc70f7fb
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?96b5bf04"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/e195679d-045b-4953-bb33-be0073ba2ac6.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?9ec29647"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:libxml2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/05/23");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/08/28");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/08/29");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"libxml2<2.9.4")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");