Executive Summary

Summary
TitleVMware ESX updates to ESX Service Console
Informations
NameVMSA-2012-0008First vendor Publication2012-04-26
VendorVMwareLast vendor Modification2012-09-13
Severity (Vendor) N/ARevision1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score10Attack RangeNetwork
Cvss Impact Score10Attack ComplexityLow
Cvss Expoit Score10AuthentificationNone Required
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Detail

a. ESX third party update for Service Console kernel

The ESX Service Console Operating System (COS) kernel is updated which addresses several security issues in the COS kernel.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the names CVE-2011-3191, CVE-2011-4348 and CVE-2012-0028 to these issues.

b. Updated ESX Service Console package libxml2

The ESX Console Operating System (COS) libxml2 rpms are updated to the following versions libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.12.el5_7.2 and libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.12.el5_7.2 which addresses several security issues.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the names CVE-2010-4008, CVE-2011-0216, CVE-2011-1944, CVE-2011-2834, CVE-2011-3905, CVE-2011-3919 to these issues.

Original Source

Url : http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0008.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

idName
CWE-189Numeric Errors
CWE-119Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CWE-399Resource Management Errors
CWE-264Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12148
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12148
Title: Vulnerability in libxml2 in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44
Description: libxml2 before 2.7.8, as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44, Apple Safari 5.0.2 and earlier, and other products, reads from invalid memory locations during processing of malformed XPath expressions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted XML document.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2010-4008
Version: 11
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows 7
Product(s): Google Chrome
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14410
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14410
Title: Double free vulnerability in libxml2, as used in Google Chrome before 14.0.835.163, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to XPath handling.
Description: Double free vulnerability in libxml2, as used in Google Chrome before 14.0.835.163, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to XPath handling.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2011-2834
Version: 9
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows 2000
Product(s): Google Chrome
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14761
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14761
Title: libxml2, as used in Google Chrome before 16.0.912.63, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors.
Description: libxml2, as used in Google Chrome before 16.0.912.63, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2011-3905
Version: 9
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows 2000
Product(s): Google Chrome
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14504
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14504
Title: Heap-based buffer overflow in libxml2, as used in Google Chrome before 16.0.912.75, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.
Description: Heap-based buffer overflow in libxml2, as used in Google Chrome before 16.0.912.75, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2011-3919
Version: 8
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows 2000
Product(s): Google Chrome
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application75
Application1900
Application26
Application118
Os839

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

idDescription
78148Google Chrome libxml2 parser.c xmlStringLenDecodeEntities() Function Remote O...
77707Google Chrome libxml Out-of-bounds Read Remote DoS
75560Google Chrome Double-free libxml XPath Handling Remote Code Execution
74910Linux Kernel fs/cifs/cifssmb.c CIFSFindNext() Function Signedness Error CIFS ...
73994Apple Safari libxml XML Data Handling Off-by-one Overflow
73248libxml2 xpath.c Xpath Nodeset Processing Overflow
69205libxml2 Crafted XML File XPath Axis Traversal DoS