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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : libxml2 (SUSE-SU-2025:0748-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 216980

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0748-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-56171: use-after-free in xmlSchemaIDCFillNodeTables and xmlSchemaBubbleIDCNodeTables in xmlschemas.c (bsc#1237363).
 - CVE-2025-24928: stack-based buffer overflow in xmlSnprintfElements in valid.c (bsc#1237370).
 - CVE-2025-27113: NULL pointer dereference in xmlPatMatch in pattern.c (bsc#1237418).

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1237363

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1237370

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1237418

http://www.nessus.org/u?9f07d2fd

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-56171

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-24928

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-27113

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 216980

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0748-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/1/2025

Updated: 3/1/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.9

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-2025-27113

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:python311-libxml2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-2-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-libxml2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-2, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 2/28/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-56171, CVE-2025-24928, CVE-2025-27113

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0748-1