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SUSE: CVE-2016-9597: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/04/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/04/2017
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

It was found that Red Hat JBoss Core Services erratum RHSA-2016:2957 for CVE-2016-3705 did not actually include the fix for the issue found in libxml2, making it vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to a Stack Overflow. This is a regression CVE for the same issue as CVE-2016-3705.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-2
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-2-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-doc
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-tools
  • suse-upgrade-python-libxml2
  • suse-upgrade-sles12-docker-image
  • suse-upgrade-sles12sp1-docker-image
  • suse-upgrade-sles12sp2-docker-image

References

  • SUSE-SU-2017:0380-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:1366-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2699-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2700-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2701-1
  • CVE-2016-9597

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