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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : xerces-c (SUSE-SU-2019:0977-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 124151

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for xerces-c fixes the following issue :

CVE-2017-12627: Processing of external DTD paths could have resulted in a NULL pointer dereference under certain conditions (bsc#1083630)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Open Buildservice Development Tools 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-OBS-15-2019-977=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2019-977=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1083630

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12627/

http://www.nessus.org/u?4a10e5b6

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 124151

File Name: suse_SU-2019-0977-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/18/2019

Updated: 5/31/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-12627

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxerces-c-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xerces-c-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxerces-c-3_1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xerces-c, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxerces-c, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xerces-c-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xerces-c-debugsource

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/17/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/1/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12627