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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2014-3243

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The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. SOAPpy 0.12.5 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted SOAP request containing a large number of nested entity references. (CVE-2014-3243) Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the…Read More

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