Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-9597
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
It was found that Red Hat JBoss Core Services erratum RHSA-2016:2957 for CVE-2016-3705 did not actually include the fix for the issue found in libxml2, making it vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to a Stack Overflow. This is a regression CVE for the same issue as CVE-2016-3705.
Vulnerable Configurations
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Nessus
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2017-1366-1.NASL description This update for libxml2 fixes the following issues : - Fix NULL dereference in xpointer.c when in recovery mode [bsc#1014873] - CVE-2016-9597: An XML document with many opening tags could have caused a overflow of the stack not detected by the recursion limits, allowing for DoS (bsc#1017497) - CVE-2014-0191: External parameter entity loaded when entity substitution is disabled could cause a DoS. (bsc#876652) - CVE-2016-9318: XML External Entity (XXE) could be abused via crafted document. (bsc#1010675) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 100352 published 2017-05-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100352 title SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libxml2 (SUSE-SU-2017:1366-1) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2017:1366-1. # The text itself is copyright (C) SUSE. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(100352); script_version("3.5"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/11 11:22:15"); script_cve_id("CVE-2014-0191", "CVE-2016-9318", "CVE-2016-9597"); script_bugtraq_id(67233); script_name(english:"SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libxml2 (SUSE-SU-2017:1366-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This update for libxml2 fixes the following issues : - Fix NULL dereference in xpointer.c when in recovery mode [bsc#1014873] - CVE-2016-9597: An XML document with many opening tags could have caused a overflow of the stack not detected by the recursion limits, allowing for DoS (bsc#1017497) - CVE-2014-0191: External parameter entity loaded when entity substitution is disabled could cause a DoS. (bsc#876652) - CVE-2016-9318: XML External Entity (XXE) could be abused via crafted document. (bsc#1010675) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1010675" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1013930" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014873" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1017497" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=876652" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0191/" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9318/" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9597/" ); # https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20171366-1/ script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?928a1587" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product : SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP1-2017-833=1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2017-833=1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2017-833=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-2-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-debugsource"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-tools"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-tools-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-libxml2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-libxml2-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-libxml2-debugsource"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/01/21"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/05/22"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/05/23"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release"); if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)\d+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "SUSE"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! 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NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2017-0380-1.NASL description This update for libxml2 fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-4658: use-after-free error could lead to crash [bsc#1005544] - Fix NULL dereference in xpointer.c when in recovery mode [bsc#1014873] - CVE-2016-9597: An XML document with many opening tags could have caused a overflow of the stack not detected by the recursion limits, allowing for DoS (bsc#1017497). For CVE-2016-9318 we decided not to ship a fix since it can break existing setups. Please take appropriate actions if you parse untrusted XML files and use the new -noxxe flag if possible (bnc#1010675, bnc#1013930). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 97015 published 2017-02-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/97015 title SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libxml2 (SUSE-SU-2017:0380-1) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2017:0380-1. # The text itself is copyright (C) SUSE. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(97015); script_version("3.5"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/11 11:22:14"); script_cve_id("CVE-2016-4658", "CVE-2016-9318", "CVE-2016-9597"); script_name(english:"SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libxml2 (SUSE-SU-2017:0380-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This update for libxml2 fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-4658: use-after-free error could lead to crash [bsc#1005544] - Fix NULL dereference in xpointer.c when in recovery mode [bsc#1014873] - CVE-2016-9597: An XML document with many opening tags could have caused a overflow of the stack not detected by the recursion limits, allowing for DoS (bsc#1017497). 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NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2017-244.NASL description This update for libxml2 fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-4658: use-after-free error could lead to crash [bsc#1005544] - Fix NULL dereference in xpointer.c when in recovery mode [bsc#1014873] - CVE-2016-9597: An XML document with many opening tags could have caused a overflow of the stack not detected by the recursion limits, allowing for DoS (bsc#1017497). For CVE-2016-9318 we decided not to ship a fix since it can break existing setups. Please take appropriate actions if you parse untrusted XML files and use the new -noxxe flag if possible (bnc#1010675, bnc#1013930). This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2017-02-13 plugin id 97116 published 2017-02-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/97116 title openSUSE Security Update : libxml2 (openSUSE-2017-244)