libxml2 was updated to fix security issues and a regression from the last version update.
Security issues fixed :
CVE-2016-3627: Fixed stack exhaustion while parsing certain XML files in recovery mode (bnc#972335).
CVE-2016-3705: Improved protection against the Billion Laughs Attack (bnc#975947).
Regression fixed :
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2016-662.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(91409);
script_version("2.4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-3627", "CVE-2016-3705");
script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : libxml2 (openSUSE-2016-662)");
script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2016-662 patch");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"libxml2 was updated to fix security issues and a regression from the
last version update.
Security issues fixed :
- CVE-2016-3627: Fixed stack exhaustion while parsing
certain XML files in recovery mode (bnc#972335).
- CVE-2016-3705: Improved protection against the Billion
Laughs Attack (bnc#975947).
Regression fixed :
- Fixed XML push parser that fails with bogus UTF-8
encoding error when multi-byte character in large CDATA
section is split across buffer [bnc#962796]"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=962796"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=972335"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=975947"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected libxml2 packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-2-32bit");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-2-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-2-debuginfo-32bit");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-debugsource");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-devel-32bit");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-tools");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-tools-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python-libxml2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python-libxml2-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python-libxml2-debugsource");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/05/30");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/06/01");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
if (release !~ "^(SUSE13\.2)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "13.2", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);
flag = 0;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"libxml2-2-2.9.3-7.11.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"libxml2-2-debuginfo-2.9.3-7.11.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"libxml2-debugsource-2.9.3-7.11.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"libxml2-devel-2.9.3-7.11.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"libxml2-tools-2.9.3-7.11.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"libxml2-tools-debuginfo-2.9.3-7.11.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"python-libxml2-2.9.3-7.11.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"python-libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.3-7.11.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", reference:"python-libxml2-debugsource-2.9.3-7.11.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libxml2-2-32bit-2.9.3-7.11.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libxml2-2-debuginfo-32bit-2.9.3-7.11.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libxml2-devel-32bit-2.9.3-7.11.1") ) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "libxml2-2 / libxml2-2-32bit / libxml2-2-debuginfo / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
novell | opensuse | libxml2-2 | p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-2 |
novell | opensuse | libxml2-2-32bit | p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-2-32bit |
novell | opensuse | libxml2-2-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-2-debuginfo |
novell | opensuse | libxml2-2-debuginfo-32bit | p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-2-debuginfo-32bit |
novell | opensuse | libxml2-debugsource | p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-debugsource |
novell | opensuse | libxml2-devel | p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-devel |
novell | opensuse | libxml2-devel-32bit | p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-devel-32bit |
novell | opensuse | libxml2-tools | p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-tools |
novell | opensuse | libxml2-tools-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxml2-tools-debuginfo |
novell | opensuse | python-libxml2 | p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python-libxml2 |