Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU89430
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-34459
CWE-ID:
CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when parsing XML data. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Update the affected package libxml2 to the latest version.
Vulnerable software versionsopenSUSE Leap: 15.5 - 15.6
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher: 5.2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro: 5.1 - 5.2
libxml2-debugsource: before 2.9.7-150000.3.70.1
libxml2-2: before 2.9.7-150000.3.70.1
libxml2-tools: before 2.9.7-150000.3.70.1
libxml2-tools-debuginfo: before 2.9.7-150000.3.70.1
libxml2-2-debuginfo: before 2.9.7-150000.3.70.1
python3-libxml2-python: before 2.9.7-150000.3.70.1
python-libxml2-python-debugsource: before 2.9.7-150000.3.70.1
python3-libxml2-python-debuginfo: before 2.9.7-150000.3.70.1
External linkshttp://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2024/suse-su-20242267-1/
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.