openSUSE 15 Security Update : libxml2 (SUSE-SU-2023:4464-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 185939

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2023:4464-1 advisory.

- libxml2 through 2.11.5 has a use-after-free that can only occur after a certain memory allocation fails.
This occurs in xmlUnlinkNode in tree.c. NOTE: the vendor's position is I don't think these issues are critical enough to warrant a CVE ID ... because an attacker typically can't control when memory allocations fail. (CVE-2023-45322)

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 python3-libxml2-python package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 185939

File Name: suse_SU-2023-4464-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/17/2023

Updated: 11/17/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-45322

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 11/16/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45322

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:4464-1

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