SUSE SLES12 Security Update : expat (SUSE-SU-2024:3182-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 206871

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3182-1 advisory.

- CVE-2024-45492: Detect integer overflow in function nextScaffoldPart. (bsc#1229932)
- CVE-2024-45491: Detect integer overflow in dtdCopy. (bsc#1229931)
- CVE-2024-45490: Reject negative len for XML_ParseBuffer. (bsc#1229930)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected expat, libexpat-devel, libexpat1 and / or libexpat1-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1229930

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1229931

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1229932

http://www.nessus.org/u?8e025819

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45490

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45491

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45492

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 206871

File Name: suse_SU-2024-3182-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/10/2024

Updated: 9/10/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-45492

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:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libexpat1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libexpat1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:expat, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libexpat-devel

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: 9/9/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/30/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-45490, CVE-2024-45491, CVE-2024-45492

IAVA: 2024-A-0543

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:3182-1