openSUSE Security Update : libxslt (openSUSE-SU-2013:0585-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 74951

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Two denial of service problems (crashes with NULL pointer derference) were fixed in libxslt, which could potentially be used by remote attackers to crash libxslt using programs.

Solution

Update the affected libxslt packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811686

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00020.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 74951

File Name: openSUSE-2013-289.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxslt-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxslt-python-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxslt-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxslt-python-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.3, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxslt1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxslt1-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxslt-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxslt-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxslt1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxslt1-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxslt-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxslt-python

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6139