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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : expat (SUSE-SU-2024:3968-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 210761

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2024:3968-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-50602: Fixed a denial of service via XML_ResumeParser (bsc#1232579).

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 expat, libexpat1 and / or libexpat1-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1232579

http://www.nessus.org/u?42bdf399

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50602

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 210761

File Name: suse_SU-2024-3968-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/12/2024

Updated: 11/15/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-50602

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libexpat1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:expat, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libexpat1-32bit

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: 11/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-50602

IAVA: 2024-A-0694

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:3968-1