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openSUSE Security Update : libneon-devel (libneon-devel-1377)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 42317

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

neon did not properly handle embedded NUL characters in X.509 certificates when comparing host names. Attackers could exploit that to spoof SSL servers (CVE-2009-2408).

Specially crafted XML documents that contain a large number of nested entity references could cause neon to consume large amounts of CPU and memory (CVE-2009-2473).

Solution

Update the affected libneon-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528370

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532345

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 42317

File Name: suse_11_1_libneon-devel-091012.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/30/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libneon-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libneon27, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libneon27-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:neon, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/12/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2408, CVE-2009-2473

CWE: 310, 399