The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. The XML parser in Expat does not use sufficient entropy for hash initialization, which allows context- dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted identifiers in an XML document. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0876. (CVE-2016-5300) Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the…Read More