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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libxml2 (SUSE-SU-2024:2288-1)
high Nessus Plugin ID 201873
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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-2024:2288-1 advisory.- CVE-2024-34459: Fixed buffer over-read in xmlHTMLPrintFileContext in xmllint.c (bsc#1224282).
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.
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 packages.See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1224282
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 201873
File Name: suse_SU-2024-2288-1.nasl
Version: 1.2
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 7/4/2024
Updated: 8/23/2024
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: Low
Base Score: 1.7
Temporal Score: 1.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-34459
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-2-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-libxml2
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: 7/3/2024
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/8/2024
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2024-34459
SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:2288-1