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openSUSE Security Update : xerces-j2 (openSUSE-2016-558)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 90910

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

xerces-j2 was updated to fix one security issue.

This security issue was fixed :

 - bsc#814241: Fixed possible DoS through very long attribute names

Solution

Update the affected xerces-j2 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=814241

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 90910

File Name: openSUSE-2016-558.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/5/2016

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xerces-j2-demo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xerces-j2-scripts, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xerces-j2-xml-apis, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xerces-j2-xml-resolver, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xerces-j2

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/4/2016