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SUSE SLES11 Security Update : libxml2 (SUSE-SU-2017:1557-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 100780

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for libxml2 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed :

 - CVE-2017-9050: heap-based buffer overflow (xmlDictAddString func) [bsc#1039069, bsc#1039661]

 - CVE-2017-9049: heap-based buffer overflow (xmlDictComputeFastKey func) [bsc#1039066]

 - CVE-2017-9048: stack overflow vulnerability (xmlSnprintfElementContent func) [bsc#1039063]

 - CVE-2017-9047: stack overflow vulnerability (xmlSnprintfElementContent func) [bsc#1039064] A clarification for the previously released update: For CVE-2016-9318 we decided not to ship a fix since it can break existing setups. Please take appropriate actions if you parse untrusted XML files and use the new

-noxxe flag if possible (bnc#1010675, bnc#1013930).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch sdksp4-libxml2-13143=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-libxml2-13143=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS:zypper in -t patch slessp3-libxml2-13143=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3:zypper in -t patch sleposp3-libxml2-13143=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-libxml2-13143=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3:zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-libxml2-13143=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1010675

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1013930

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039069

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039661

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9318/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9047/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9048/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9049/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9050/

http://www.nessus.org/u?b70a10e1

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039063

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039064

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039066

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 100780

File Name: suse_SU-2017-1557-1.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/14/2017

Updated: 12/16/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, 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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-9318

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/13/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/16/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9318, CVE-2017-9047, CVE-2017-9048, CVE-2017-9049, CVE-2017-9050