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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : expat (SUSE-SU-2019:1834-1)

2019-07-1500:00:00
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This update for expat fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

CVE-2018-20843: Fixed a denial of service triggered by high resource consumption in the XML parser when XML names contain a large amount of colons (bsc#1139937).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2019:1834-1.
# The text itself is copyright (C) SUSE.
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(126695);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2022/12/06");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-20843");
  script_xref(name:"CEA-ID", value:"CEA-2021-0025");

  script_name(english:"SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : expat (SUSE-SU-2019:1834-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"This update for expat fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

CVE-2018-20843: Fixed a denial of service triggered by high resource
consumption in the XML parser when XML names contain a large amount of
colons (bsc#1139937).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139937");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20843/");
  # https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2019/suse-su-20191834-1/
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?7a269838");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4:zypper in -t
patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2019-1834=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch
SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-1834=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch
SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-1834=1

SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0 :

To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform Velum dashboard. It
will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger
updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  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_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/06/24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/07/12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/07/15");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:expat");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:expat-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:expat-debugsource");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libexpat1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libexpat1-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2022 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  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("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, "SUSE");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)\d+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "SUSE");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLED12|SLES12)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE SLED12 / SLES12", "SUSE " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "x86_64" >!< cpu && "s390x" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "SUSE " + os_ver, cpu);

sp = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel");
if (isnull(sp)) sp = "0";
if (os_ver == "SLES12" && (! preg(pattern:"^(4)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES12 SP4", os_ver + " SP" + sp);
if (os_ver == "SLED12" && (! preg(pattern:"^(4)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLED12 SP4", os_ver + " SP" + sp);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"4", reference:"expat-2.1.0-21.6.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"4", reference:"expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-21.6.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"4", reference:"expat-debuginfo-32bit-2.1.0-21.6.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"4", reference:"expat-debugsource-2.1.0-21.6.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"4", reference:"libexpat1-2.1.0-21.6.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"4", reference:"libexpat1-32bit-2.1.0-21.6.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"4", reference:"libexpat1-debuginfo-2.1.0-21.6.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"4", reference:"libexpat1-debuginfo-32bit-2.1.0-21.6.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"expat-2.1.0-21.6.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-21.6.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"expat-debuginfo-32bit-2.1.0-21.6.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"expat-debugsource-2.1.0-21.6.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libexpat1-2.1.0-21.6.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libexpat1-32bit-2.1.0-21.6.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libexpat1-debuginfo-2.1.0-21.6.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libexpat1-debuginfo-32bit-2.1.0-21.6.1")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "expat");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
novellsuse_linuxexpatp-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:expat
novellsuse_linuxexpat-debuginfop-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:expat-debuginfo
novellsuse_linuxexpat-debugsourcep-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:expat-debugsource
novellsuse_linuxlibexpat1p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libexpat1
novellsuse_linuxlibexpat1-debuginfop-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libexpat1-debuginfo
novellsuse_linux12cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12