SUSE SLES15: libxml2-2 / libxml2-2-32bit / libxml2-devel / libxml2-tools / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:2048-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 174889

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2048-1 advisory.

- CVE-2023-29469: Fixed inconsistent result when hashing empty strings (bsc#1210412).
- CVE-2023-28484: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in xmlSchemaFixupComplexType (bsc#1210411).
- CVE-2022-29824: Fixed integer overflow leading to out-of-bounds write in buf.c (bsc#1199132).

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 174889

File Name: suse_SU-2023-2048-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/27/2023

Updated: 6/25/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.72

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-29824

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-29469

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python2-libxml2-python, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-libxml2-python, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-2-32bit

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: 4/26/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/16/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3541, CVE-2022-29824, CVE-2023-28484, CVE-2023-29469

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:2048-1

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