SUSE SLES12 Security Update : expat (SUSE-SU-2022:0698-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 158601

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0698-1 advisory.

- CVE-2022-25236: Fixed possible namespace-separator characters insertion into namespace URIs (bsc#1196025).
- CVE-2022-25235: Fixed UTF-8 character validation in a certain context (bsc#1196026).
- CVE-2022-25313: Fixed stack exhaustion in build_model() via uncontrolled recursion (bsc#1196168).
- CVE-2022-25314: Fixed integer overflow in copyString (bsc#1196169).
- CVE-2022-25315: Fixed integer overflow in storeRawNames (bsc#1196171).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected expat, libexpat-devel, libexpat1 and / or libexpat1-32bit packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 158601

File Name: suse_SU-2022-0698-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/5/2022

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.98

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 Score Source: CVE-2022-25315

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:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libexpat1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libexpat1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:expat, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libexpat-devel

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: 3/3/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-25235, CVE-2022-25236, CVE-2022-25313, CVE-2022-25314, CVE-2022-25315

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:0698-1

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