The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-cdde5c873d advisory.

    Update to 2.6.4.

    ----

    Backport fix for CVE-2024-50602.

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The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3997-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-50602: Fixed a denial of service in the vendored libexpat's XML_ResumeParser function     (bsc#1232590).

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The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-fa21fd6c77 advisory.

    Update to 2.6.4.

    ----

    Backport fix for CVE-2024-50602.

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The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-9541 advisory.

    - Fix CVE-2024-50602
    - Fix CVE-2024-45490, CVE-2024-45491, CVE-2024-45492

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The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2024:3968-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-50602: Fixed a denial of service via XML_ResumeParser (bsc#1232579).

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The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the expat-2.5.0-4.el9 build changelog.

  - An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.4. There is a crash within the XML_ResumeParser function     because XML_StopParser can stop/suspend an unstarted parser. (CVE-2024-50602)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2024:9502 advisory.

    * libexpat: expat: DoS via XML_ResumeParser (CVE-2024-50602)

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The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2024:3964-1 advisory.

    Security issue fixed:

    - CVE-2024-50602: Fixed a denial of service in the vendored libexpat's XML_ResumeParser function     (bsc#1232590).

    Non-security issues fixed:

    - rebuilt for python 3.11 (bsc#1228252).
    - add repack script, do not include packaging/ dir in sources
    - Reduce complexity by not rewriting subpackages at all.
    - Appease factory-auto bot about package src name.
    - Add additional patches fixing the situation with Python 3.10       compatibility.
    - Split out the TW python3 flavors into multibuild using the       python_subpackage_only mechanism: Multiple python3 flavors       sequentially require too much space and time in one build.

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The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:9502 advisory.

    Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.

    Security Fix(es):

    * libexpat: expat: DoS via XML_ResumeParser (CVE-2024-50602)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-7427eaacd8 advisory.

    Backport fix for CVE-2024-50602.

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The version of expat installed on the remote host is prior to 2.6.4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SSA:2024-312-01 advisory.

    New expat packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues.

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The version of expat installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-50602 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.4. There is a crash within the XML_ResumeParser function     because XML_StopParser can stop/suspend an unstarted parser. (CVE-2024-50602)

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The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2024:9502 advisory.

    * libexpat: expat: DoS via XML_ResumeParser (CVE-2024-50602)

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The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-9502 advisory.

    - lib: Prevent integer overflow in doProlog [CVE-2022-23990][Orabug: 33910314]
    - Fix CVE-2024-50602

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ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
211523	Fedora 40 : mingw-expat (2024-cdde5c873d)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	11/19/2024	11/19/2024	medium
211483	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : python3-wxPython (SUSE-SU-2024:3997-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	11/16/2024	11/16/2024	medium
211526	Fedora 41 : mingw-expat (2024-fa21fd6c77)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	11/19/2024	11/19/2024	medium
211611	Oracle Linux 9 : expat (ELSA-2024-9541)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	11/19/2024	11/19/2024	medium
210761	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : expat (SUSE-SU-2024:3968-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	11/12/2024	11/15/2024	medium
210768	CentOS 9 : expat-2.5.0-4.el9	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	11/12/2024	11/12/2024	medium
211597	RockyLinux 8 : expat (RLSA-2024:9502)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	11/19/2024	11/19/2024	medium
210764	openSUSE 15 Security Update : python-wxPython (SUSE-SU-2024:3964-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	11/12/2024	11/12/2024	medium
210886	RHEL 8 : expat (RHSA-2024:9502)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	11/13/2024	11/13/2024	medium
210935	Fedora 39 : mingw-expat (2024-7427eaacd8)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	11/14/2024	11/14/2024	medium
210544	Slackware Linux 15.0 / current expat Vulnerability (SSA:2024-312-01)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	11/7/2024	11/7/2024	medium
210723	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: expat (CVE-2024-50602)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	11/9/2024	11/9/2024	medium
210891	AlmaLinux 8 : expat (ALSA-2024:9502)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	11/13/2024	11/13/2024	medium
210909	Oracle Linux 8 : expat (ELSA-2024-9502)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	11/13/2024	11/13/2024	medium

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