Problem Note 61796: Known security vulnerabilities exist within the libxml library that is used by SAS® Text Analytics
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Severity: High
Description: The third-party libxml library that is used for document parsing by SAS® Text Analytics software has known security vulnerabilities.
Potential Impact: Users might unknowingly execute malicious code.
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | N/A | z/OS | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| z/OS 64-bit | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64 | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 10 | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2016 | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Linux for x64 | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.4 TS1M5 | |||
A fix for this issue for SAS Threaded Kernel Extensions for SAS Text Analytics 14.2 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/B9W.html#61796A fix for this issue for SAS Text Analytics for Greek 14.1 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/Y38.html#61796A fix for this issue for SAS Text Analytics 14.1 is available at:
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/C3M.html#61796A fix for this issue for SAS Threaded Kernel Extensions for SAS Text Analytics 13.2_M1 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/D2H.html#61796A fix for this issue for SAS Threaded Kernel Extensions for SAS Text Analytics 12.3_M1 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/D2G.html#61796| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2018-02-06 09:32:12 |
| Date Created: | 2018-02-01 13:45:42 |