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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : xerces-c (SUSE-SU-2021:2920-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 153018

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2920-1 advisory.

 - The Apache Xerces-C 3.0.0 to 3.2.3 XML parser contains a use-after-free error triggered during the scanning of external DTDs. This flaw has not been addressed in the maintained version of the library and has no current mitigation other than to disable DTD processing. This can be accomplished via the DOM using a standard parser feature, or via SAX using the XERCES_DISABLE_DTD environment variable. (CVE-2018-1311)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libxerces-c-3_1 and / or libxerces-c-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1159552

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1311

http://www.nessus.org/u?73c53280

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 153018

File Name: suse_SU-2021-2920-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/4/2021

Updated: 7/13/2023

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1311

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/2/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/18/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1311

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:2920-1