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openSUSE Security Update : xerces-c (openSUSE-2016-429)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 90418

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for xerces-c fixes the following security issues :

 - CVE-2016-0729: Fix for mishandling certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in buffer overlows during processing and error reporting. The overflows can manifest as a segmentation fault or as memory corruption during a parse operation. (boo#966822)

 - CVE-2015-0252: Fix for mishandling certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in a segmentation fault during a parse operation (boo#920810)

Solution

Update the affected xerces-c packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920810

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=966822

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 90418

File Name: openSUSE-2016-429.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/8/2016

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xerces-c, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xerces-c-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxerces-c-3_1-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxerces-c-3_1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxerces-c-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxerces-c-3_1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxerces-c-3_1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xerces-c-debugsource

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0252, CVE-2016-0729