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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libxslt (SUSE-SU-2023:0556-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 172014

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0556-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2021-30560: Fixing a use after free vulnerability in Blink XSLT (bsc#1208574).

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

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

Solution

Update the affected libxslt-devel, libxslt-tools, libxslt1 and / or libxslt1-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1208574

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-30560

http://www.nessus.org/u?2744fe3a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 172014

File Name: suse_SU-2023-0556-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/1/2023

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-30560

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxslt1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxslt1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxslt-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxslt-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/28/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/15/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-30560

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:0556-1