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SUSE SLED12 Security Update : Xerces-C (SUSE-SU-2015:0597-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83706

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Synopsis

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

Description

The Xerces-C XML parsing library was updated to fix mishandling certain kinds of malformed input documents, that could have resulted in a segmentation faults during a parse operation, leading to denial of service or potential code execution. (bnc#920810,CVE-2015-0252)

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Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-2015-144=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-144=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=920810

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0252/

http://www.nessus.org/u?7bc9eb9b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83706

File Name: suse_SU-2015-0597-1.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxerces-c, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxerces-c-3_1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxerces-c-3_1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xerces-c-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xerces-c-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 3/9/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/24/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0252

BID: 73252