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HistoryMay 03, 2013 - 12:00 a.m.

SuSE 10 Security Update : libxml2 (ZYPP Patch Number 8513)

2013-05-0300:00:00
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20

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.019 Low

EPSS

Percentile

88.4%

libxml2 has been updated to fix entity expansion problems :

  • Internal entity expansion within XML was not bounded, leading to simple small XML files being able to cause ‘out of memory’ denial of service conditions.
    (CVE-2013-0338)
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) Novell, Inc.
#

if (NASL_LEVEL < 3000) exit(0);

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(66301);
  script_version("1.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2013-0338", "CVE-2013-0339");

  script_name(english:"SuSE 10 Security Update : libxml2 (ZYPP Patch Number 8513)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"libxml2 has been updated to fix entity expansion problems :

  - Internal entity expansion within XML was not bounded,
    leading to simple small XML files being able to cause
    'out of memory' denial of service conditions.
    (CVE-2013-0338)"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0338.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0339.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Apply ZYPP patch number 8513.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:suse:suse_linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2013/04/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/03/20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/05/03");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) exit(0, "Local checks are not enabled.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release")) exit(0, "The host is not running SuSE.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) exit(1, "Could not obtain the list of installed packages.");

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) exit(1, "Failed to determine the architecture type.");
if (cpu >!< "x86_64" && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") exit(1, "Local checks for SuSE 10 on the '"+cpu+"' architecture have not been implemented.");


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED10", sp:4, reference:"libxml2-2.6.23-15.37.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED10", sp:4, reference:"libxml2-devel-2.6.23-15.37.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED10", sp:4, reference:"libxml2-python-2.6.23-15.37.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED10", sp:4, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libxml2-32bit-2.6.23-15.37.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED10", sp:4, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libxml2-devel-32bit-2.6.23-15.37.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES10", sp:4, reference:"libxml2-2.6.23-15.37.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES10", sp:4, reference:"libxml2-devel-2.6.23-15.37.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES10", sp:4, reference:"libxml2-python-2.6.23-15.37.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES10", sp:4, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libxml2-32bit-2.6.23-15.37.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES10", sp:4, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libxml2-devel-32bit-2.6.23-15.37.1")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else exit(0, "The host is not affected.");
VendorProductVersionCPE
susesuse_linuxcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.019 Low

EPSS

Percentile

88.4%