PT-2012-6297 · Expat+5 · Expat+5

Marcus Meissner · Published 2012-12-31 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2012-6702

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Expat (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms. This is achieved through vectors involving the use of the srand function, when Expat is used in a parser that has not called XML SetHashSalt or passed it a seed of 0.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-310

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2088

CVE-2012-6702

DLA-508-1

DSA-3597-1

MGASA-2016-0227

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10077-1

SUSE-SU-2017:0415-1

SUSE-SU-2017:0424-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2699-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2700-1

SUSE-SU-2017_0415-1

SUSE-SU-2017_0424-1

USN-3010-1

USN-3013-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Debian

Expat

Suse

Ubuntu

Itunes

References · 71

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5300 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3013-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6702 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6702 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:0415-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4472 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-6702 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0227 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3597-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6702 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0876 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3010-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/libxmltok · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3597-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-21 · Vendor Advisory