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openSUSE Security Update : xerces-c (openSUSE-2016-429)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 90418
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Synopsis
The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.Description
This update for xerces-c fixes the following security issues :- CVE-2016-0729: Fix for mishandling certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in buffer overlows during processing and error reporting. The overflows can manifest as a segmentation fault or as memory corruption during a parse operation. (boo#966822)
- CVE-2015-0252: Fix for mishandling certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in a segmentation fault during a parse operation (boo#920810)
Solution
Update the affected xerces-c packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 90418
File Name: openSUSE-2016-429.nasl
Version: 2.6
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 4/8/2016
Updated: 1/19/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 5.9
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 8.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxerces-c-3_1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxerces-c-3_1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxerces-c-3_1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxerces-c-3_1-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxerces-c-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xerces-c, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xerces-c-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xerces-c-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2016
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2015-0252, CVE-2016-0729