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openSUSE Security Update : libxml2 (libxml2-502)

high Nessus Plugin ID 40058

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

A previous security fix for libxml2 caused problems when processing large xml files. The patch has been reworked so processing of large files works again.

Solution

Update the affected libxml2 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465528

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 40058

File Name: suse_11_0_libxml2-090205.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/5/2009