Lucene search

K

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : expat (SUSE-SU-2024:3004-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has a denial of service vulnerability

Show more
Related
Refs
Code
ReporterTitlePublishedViews
Family
OSV
Moderate: expat security update
5 Apr 202414:55
osv
OSV
python312-3.12.3-1.1 on GA media
15 Jun 202400:00
osv
OSV
expat - security update
7 Apr 202400:00
osv
OSV
Red Hat Security Advisory: expat security update
16 Sep 202418:30
osv
OSV
CVE-2023-52425
4 Feb 202420:15
osv
OSV
python311-3.11.9-1.1 on GA media
15 Jun 202400:00
osv
OSV
Moderate: expat security update
2 Apr 202400:00
osv
OSV
Moderate: xmlrpc-c security and bug fix update
2 Jul 202400:00
osv
OSV
python-2.7.18-46.1 on GA media
15 Jun 202400:00
osv
OSV
Security update for expat
23 Aug 202411:27
osv
Rows per page
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2024:3004-1. The text itself
# is copyright (C) SUSE.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(206190);
  script_version("1.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/08/25");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-52425");
  script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2024-A-0134-S");
  script_xref(name:"SuSE", value:"SUSE-SU-2024:3004-1");

  script_name(english:"SUSE SLES12 Security Update : expat (SUSE-SU-2024:3004-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced
in the SUSE-SU-2024:3004-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2023-52425: denial of service (resource consumption) caused by processing large tokens (bsc#1219559)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1219559");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1221563");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2024-August/036667.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-52425");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected expat, libexpat-devel, libexpat1 and / or libexpat1-32bit packages.");
  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:POC/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:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-52425");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2024/02/04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2024/08/23");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/08/25");

  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:libexpat-devel");
  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:libexpat1-32bit");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

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

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2024 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('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(os_release) || os_release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)(?:_SAP)?\d+)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'SUSE');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLES12|SLES_SAP12)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'SUSE SLES12 / SLES_SAP12', 'SUSE (' + os_ver + ')');

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

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'SUSE (' + os_ver + ')', cpu);

var service_pack = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel");
if (isnull(service_pack)) service_pack = "0";
if (os_ver == "SLES12" && (! preg(pattern:"^(5)$", string:service_pack))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES12 SP5", os_ver + " SP" + service_pack);
if (os_ver == "SLES_SAP12" && (! preg(pattern:"^(5)$", string:service_pack))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES_SAP12 SP5", os_ver + " SP" + service_pack);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'expat-2.1.0-21.32.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLES_SAP12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'libexpat-devel-2.1.0-21.32.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLES_SAP12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'libexpat1-2.1.0-21.32.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLES_SAP12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'libexpat1-32bit-2.1.0-21.32.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLES_SAP12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'libexpat-devel-2.1.0-21.32.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sle-sdk-release-12.5', 'sles-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'expat-2.1.0-21.32.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'libexpat1-2.1.0-21.32.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-release-12.5']},
    {'reference':'libexpat1-32bit-2.1.0-21.32.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-release-12.5']}
];

var ltss_caveat_required = FALSE;
var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var _release = NULL;
  var sp = NULL;
  var _cpu = NULL;
  var exists_check = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (reference && _release) {
    if (exists_check) {
      var check_flag = 0;
      foreach var check (exists_check) {
        if (!rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:check)) continue;
        check_flag++;
      }
      if (!check_flag) continue;
    }
    if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'expat / libexpat-devel / libexpat1 / libexpat1-32bit');
}

Transform Your Security Services

Elevate your offerings with Vulners' advanced Vulnerability Intelligence. Contact us for a demo and discover the difference comprehensive, actionable intelligence can make in your security strategy.

Book a live demo
25 Aug 2024 00:00Current
7.2High risk
Vulners AI Score7.2
CVSS37.5
13
.json
Report