Executive Summary
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | MDVSA-2009:223 | First vendor Publication | 2009-08-30 |
| Vendor | Mandriva | Last vendor Modification | 2009-08-30 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | N/A |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
| Calculate full CVSS 3.0 Vectors scores | |||
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 4.3 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | Attack Complexity | Medium |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 8.6 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| A vulnerability has been found and corrected in xerces-c: Stack consumption vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving nested parentheses and invalid byte values in simply nested DTD structures, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework (CVE-2009-1885). This update provides a solution to this vulnerability. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:223 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 100 % | CWE-119 | Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 2 |
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2009-12-10 | Name : Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:223-1 (xerces-c) File : nvt/mdksa_2009_223_1.nasl |
| 2009-09-09 | Name : SuSE Security Summary SUSE-SR:2009:014 File : nvt/suse_sr_2009_014.nasl |
| 2009-09-02 | Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-8305 (xerces-c27) File : nvt/fcore_2009_8305.nasl |
| 2009-09-02 | Name : Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-8332 (xerces-c27) File : nvt/fcore_2009_8332.nasl |
| 2009-09-02 | Name : Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-8345 (xerces-c) File : nvt/fcore_2009_8345.nasl |
| 2009-09-02 | Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-8350 (xerces-c) File : nvt/fcore_2009_8350.nasl |
| 2009-09-02 | Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:223 (xerces-c) File : nvt/mdksa_2009_223.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 56859 | Apache Xerces-C++ Multiple Sub-project XML Nested DTD Structures Parsing Recu... |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2009-10-06 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_Xerces-c-6430.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2009-08-31 | Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandriva_MDVSA-2009-223.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2009-08-25 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2009-8305.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2009-08-25 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2009-8332.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2009-08-25 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2009-8345.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2009-08-25 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2009-8350.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2009-08-20 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_11_0_Xerces-c-090814.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2009-08-20 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_11_1_Xerces-c-090814.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2014-02-17 11:40:40 |
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