SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libxml2 (SUSE-SU-2025:4104-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 275505

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:4104-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-9714: Fixed infinite recursion at exsltDynMapFunction function in libexslt/dynamic.c (bsc#1249076)
- CVE-2025-8732: Fixed infinite recursion in catalog parsing functions when processing malformed SGML catalog files (bsc#1247850)

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: 275505

File Name: suse_SU-2025-4104-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/16/2025

Updated: 11/16/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.7

Temporal Score: 1.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-8732

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-9714

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-libxml2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-2-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxml2-doc

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: 11/14/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/8/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-8732, CVE-2025-9714

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:4104-1

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