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openSUSE Security Update : xerces-c (openSUSE-2019-1283)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 124357

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

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)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected xerces-c packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1083630

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 124357

File Name: openSUSE-2019-1283.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2019

Updated: 5/30/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, 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: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxerces-c-3_1-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xerces-c, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xerces-c-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxerces-c-3_1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxerces-c-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxerces-c-3_1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxerces-c-3_1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse: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: 4/26/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/1/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12627