Executive Summary
Summary | |
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Title | Expat vulnerability |
Informations | |||
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Name | USN-4132-1 | First vendor Publication | 2019-09-12 |
Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2019-09-12 |
Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | N/A |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
Cvss vector : N/A | |||
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Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | |||
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Cvss Base Score | 5 | Attack Range | Network |
Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | Attack Complexity | Low |
Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 19.04 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary: Expat could be made to expose sensitive information if it received a specially crafted XML file. Software Description: - expat: XML parsing C library Details: It was discovered that Expat incorrectly handled certain XML files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.04: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. References: Package Information: |
Original Source
Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4132-1 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
% | Id | Name |
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50 % | CWE-776 | Unrestricted Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Bomb') |
50 % | CWE-125 | Out-of-bounds Read |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Snort® IPS/IDS
Date | Description |
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2019-12-17 | libexpat internal entity heap over-read attempt RuleID : 52254 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-OTHER |
2019-12-17 | libexpat internal entity heap over-read attempt RuleID : 52253 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-OTHER |
Alert History
Date | Informations |
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2019-09-13 00:22:26 |
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2019-09-13 00:19:10 |
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