Summary
The latest update for SINEMA Remote Connect Server fixes two Denial-of-Service vulnerabilities in the underlying third-party XML parser.
Siemens has released updates for the affected product and recommends to update to the latest versions.
Vulnerabilities 2
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High 7.5
xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.10 has a memory leak related to newDoc->oldNs.
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High 7.5
libxml as used in Nokogiri has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation
xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation.
Revision history
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#2
Revision - Fixing typos
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#1
Publication Date
References
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SSA-292794: Multiple Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities in SINEMA Remote Connect Server - TXT Version
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/txt/ssa-292794.txt
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SSA-292794: Multiple Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities in SINEMA Remote Connect Server - PDF Version
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-292794.pdf
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ICS Advisory ICSA-21-103-08 - Web Version
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-21-103-08
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Recommended Practices
https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/alerts/ICS-ALERT-10-301-01
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Recommended Practices
https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/ics-recommended-practices
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Recommended Practices
https://www.cisa.gov/topics/industrial-control-systems
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Recommended Practices
https://us-cert.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/recommended_practices/NCCIC_ICS-CERT_Defense_in_Depth_2016_S508C.pdf
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Recommended Practices
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/Cybersecurity_Best_Practices_for_Industrial_Control_Systems.pdf
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Recommended Practices
https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/tips/ICS-TIP-12-146-01B