SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ruby2.5 (SUSE-SU-2024:3874-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 210110

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3874-1 advisory.

- CVE-2024-43398: Fixed DoS when parsing a XML that has many deep elements with the same local name attributes (bsc#1229673)
- CVE-2024-41123: Fixed DoS when parsing an XML that contains many specific characters such as whitespaces, >] and ]> (bsc#1228794)
- CVE-2024-41946: Fixed DoS when parsing an XML that has many entity expansions with SAX2 or pull parser API (bsc#1228799)
- CVE-2024-35176: Fixed DoS when parsing an XML that has many left angled brackets in an attribute value (bsc#1224390)
- CVE-2024-39908: Fixed ReDos when parsing an XML that has many specific characters (bsc#1228072)

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 210110

File Name: suse_SU-2024-3874-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/2/2024

Updated: 12/23/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-41946

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libruby2_5-2_5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5-stdlib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5-devel-extra, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5-devel

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: 11/1/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-35176, CVE-2024-39908, CVE-2024-41123, CVE-2024-41946, CVE-2024-43398

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:3874-1

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