SB2021031733 - IBM RackSwitch firmware update for Libxml2
Published: March 17, 2021 Updated: December 8, 2023
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 6 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-24977)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal() function in libxml2/entities.c in libxml2. A remote attacker can pas specially crafted XML data to the affected application, trigger out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system.
2) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7595)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop in xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c. A remote attacker can consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions in a certain end-of-file situation.
3) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-20388)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due memory leak in xmlSchemaPreRun in xmlschemas.c. A remote attacker can trigger a xmlSchemaValidateStream memory leak and perform denial of service attack.
4) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19956)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due memory leak in xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover in parser.c. A remote attacker can trigger a memory leak related to newDoc->oldNs and perform denial of service attack.
5) Null pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14404)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists in the xmlXPathCompOpEval() function, as defined in the path.c source code file due to improper parsing of invalid XPath expressions in the XPATH_OP_AND and XPATH_OP_OR cases. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request that submits malicious input to an application that is using the affected library, trigger a NULL pointer dereference and cause the application to crash.
6) XML External Entity injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9318)
The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
libxml2 2.9.4 and earlier, as used in XMLSec 1.2.23 and earlier and other products, does not offer a flag directly indicating that the current document may be read but other files may not be opened, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted document.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.