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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.4.2013.0744.1
Category:SuSE Local Security Checks
Title:SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2013:0744-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'libxml2' package(s) announced via the SUSE-SU-2013:0744-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'libxml2' package(s) announced via the SUSE-SU-2013:0744-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
libxml2 has been updated to fix entity expansion problems:

* CVE-2013-0338: 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.

Security Issue references:

* CVE-2013-0338
>
* CVE-2013-0339
>

Affected Software/OS:
'libxml2' package(s) on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP2.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
6.8

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-0338
52662
http://secunia.com/advisories/52662
55568
http://secunia.com/advisories/55568
DSA-2652
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2652
HPSBGN03302
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142798889927587&w=2
MDVSA-2013:056
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:056
SSRT101996
SUSE-SU-2013:1627
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00002.html
USN-1782-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1782-1
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912400
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=23f05e0c33987d6605387b300c4be5da2120a7ab
openSUSE-SU-2013:0552
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00112.html
openSUSE-SU-2013:0555
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00114.html
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-0339
54172
http://secunia.com/advisories/54172
USN-1904-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1904-1
USN-1904-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1904-2
[oss-security] 20130221 CVE Guidance for Libraries and Resource-Consumption DoS
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/21/24
[oss-security] 20130221 CVEs for libxml2 and expat internal and external XML entity expansion
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/22/3
[oss-security] 20130412 Re-evaluating expat/libxml2 CVE assignments
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/12/6
[oss-security] 20131028 Re: CVE Request: libxml2 external parsed entities issue
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/182
[oss-security] 20131029 Re: CVE Request: libxml2 external parsed entities issue
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/184
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/188
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=915149
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=4629ee02ac649c27f9c0cf98ba017c6b5526070f
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