SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xerces-c (SUSE-SU-2023:4543-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 186253

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4543-1 advisory.

- An integer overflow in xerces-c++ 3.2.3 in BigFix Platform allows remote attackers to cause out-of-bound access via HTTP request. (CVE-2023-37536)

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, libxerces-c-3_1-32bit and / or libxerces-c-devel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 186253

File Name: suse_SU-2023-4543-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/25/2023

Updated: 11/25/2023

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: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-37536

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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:libxerces-c-3_1-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxerces-c-3_1

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: 11/24/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/11/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-37536

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:4543-1

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