SuSE 11.2 Security Update : libxml2 (SAT Patch Number 7517)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66300

Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

libxml2 has been updated to fix entity expansion problems :

- Internal entity expansion within XML was not bounded, leading to simple small XML files being able to cause 'out of memory' denial of service conditions.
(CVE-2013-0338)

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 7517.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805233

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0338.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0339.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66300

File Name: suse_11_libxml2-130320.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/3/2013

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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:suse_linux:11:libxml2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libxml2-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libxml2-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libxml2-python, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/20/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0338, CVE-2013-0339