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SUSE: 2022:1750-1 Important: libxml2 Buffer Overflow and Integer Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 19, 2022
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE has issued a security patch for libxml2 to tackle critical vulnerabilities. Prompt updates advised.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for libxml2 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2022-23308: Fixed a use-after-free of ID and IDREF attributes (bsc#1196490). - CVE-2022-29824: Fixed integer overflow that could have led to an out-of-bounds write in buf.c (xmlBuf*) and tree.c (xmlBuffer*) (bsc#1199132). Patch Instructions: 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: - openSUSE Leap 15.4: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2022-1750=1 - openSUSE Leap 15.3: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2022-1750=1 - SUSE Manager Server 4.1: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Server-4.1-2022-1750=1 - SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1:

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security advisory update buffer overflow patch important integer overflow libxml2

References

#1196490 #1199132

Cross- CVE-2022-23308 CVE-2022-29824

CVSS scores:

CVE-2022-23308 (NVD) : 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2022-23308 (SUSE): 7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

CVE-2022-29824 (NVD) : 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2022-29824 (SUSE): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0

SUSE Enterprise Storage 6

SUSE Enterprise Storage 7

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP1-ESPOS

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP1-LTSS

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important
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2022:1750-1
Rating: important

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