SUSE SLED15: expat / libexpat-devel / libexpat-devel-32bit / libexpat1 / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:1129-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 193073

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1129-1 advisory.

- CVE-2023-52425: Fixed a DoS caused by processing large tokens. (bsc#1219559)
- CVE-2024-28757: Fixed an XML Entity Expansion. (bsc#1221289)

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: High

ID: 193073

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1129-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/9/2024

Updated: 6/25/2026

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.67

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-28757

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: 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, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 4/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52425, CVE-2024-28757

IAVA: 2024-A-0134-S, 2024-A-0192-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1129-1

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