NASLDB: Debian DSA-1921-1 : expat - denial of service
General
ID: 44786
Name: Debian DSA-1921-1 : expat – denial of service
Summary: Checks dpkg output for the updated package
Credits: –
Classification
Risk: –
CVSS: –
CVSS Base Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS Temporal Vector: –
Port: 0
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Type: Local
Description
Peter Valchev discovered an error in expat, an XML parsing C library,
when parsing certain UTF-8 sequences, which can be exploited to crash
an application using the library.
Exploiting
Exploit Available: –
Exploitability Ease: –
Sources
CVE: CVE-2009-2625
OSVDB: –
Bugtraq: –
scipID: –
Timeline
Vulnerability Disclosure: –
Patch Release: 2009/10/28
Plugin Release: 2010/02/24
Plugin
Version: 1.9
Filename: debian_DSA-1921.nasl
Filesize: 3503 bytes
MD5 Hash: c73c155200756f5cb237f30db01dbf11
Identification: Host/local_checks_enabled
Require Keys: Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Dependencies: "ssh_get_info.nasl"
Copyright: This script is© 2010-2012 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
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