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openSUSE: 2020:2453-1 Critical: LibXML2 Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey July 21, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE publishes security patch for expat tackling denial of service flaw rated as moderate risk.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

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).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service update resource consumption openSUSE expat

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE 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:

- openSUSE Leap 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-1777=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-1777=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (i586 x86_64):

expat-2.2.5-lp151.3.3.1

expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-lp151.3.3.1

expat-debugsource-2.2.5-lp151.3.3.1

libexpat-devel-2.2.5-lp151.3.3.1

libexpat1-2.2.5-lp151.3.3.1

libexpat1-debuginfo-2.2.5-lp151.3.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.2.5-lp151.3.3.1

libexpat-devel-32bit-2.2.5-lp151.3.3.1

libexpat1-32bit-2.2.5-lp151.3.3.1

libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.2.5-lp151.3.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (i586 x86_64):

expat-2.2.5-lp150.2.3.1

expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-lp150.2.3.1

expat-debugsource-2.2.5-lp150.2.3.1

libexpat-devel-2.2.5-lp150.2.3.1

libexpat1-2.2.5-lp150.2.3.1

libexpat1-debuginfo-2.2.5-lp150.2.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

expat-32bit-debuginfo-2.2.5-lp150.2.3.1

libexpat-devel-32bit-2.2.5-lp150.2.3.1

libexpat1-32bit-2.2.5-lp150.2.3.1

libexpat1-32bit-debuginfo-2.2.5-lp150.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20843.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1139937

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1777-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 openSUSE Leap 15.0

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service update resource consumption openSUSE expat

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