Tenable Nessus Buffer Overflow in Expat Library Lets Remote Authenticated Users Execute Arbitrary Code

SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1036415

SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1036415

CVE Reference: CVE-2016-0718 (Links to External Site)

Date: Jul 21 2016

Impact: Execution of arbitrary code via network, User access via network

Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes

Version(s): 6.0.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.1.0, 6.1.1, 6.1.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.1, 6.3.0, 6.3.1, 6.3.2, 6.3.3, 6.3.4, 6.3.5, 6.3.6, 6.3.7, 6.4.0, 6.4.1, 6.4.2, 6.4.3, 6.5.0, 6.5.1, 6.5.2, 6.5.3, 6.5.4, 6.5.5, 6.5.6, 6.6.0, 6.6.1, 6.6.2, 6.7.0

Description: A vulnerability was reported in Tenable Nessus. A remote authenticated user can execute arbitrary code on the target system.

A remote authenticated user can send specially crafted data to trigger a buffer overflow in the Expat XML parser library and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Impact: A remote authenticated user can execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Solution: The vendor has issued a fix (6.8).

The vendor's advisory is available at:

http://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-11

Vendor URL: www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-11 (Links to External Site)

Cause: Boundary error

Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)

Message History: None.


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