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openSUSE Security Update : Xerces-c (Xerces-c-1204)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40649

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The Xerces-c package was vulnerable to various bugs while parsing XML.
(CVE-2009-1885)

Solution

Update the affected Xerces-c packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530708

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40649

File Name: suse_11_1_Xerces-c-090814.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/20/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxerces-c-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxerces-c28, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xerces-c

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 8/14/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1885

CWE: 119