Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.18.2.2025.1201.1
Category:	openSUSE Local Security Checks
Title:	openSUSE Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2025:1201-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'expat' package(s) announced via the SUSE-SU-2025:1201-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'expat' package(s) announced via the SUSE-SU-2025:1201-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: This update for expat fixes the following issues: - CVE-2024-8176: Fixed denial of service from chaining a large number of entities caused by stack overflow by resolving use of recursion (bsc#1239618) Other fixes: - version update to 2.7.1 (jsc#PED-12500) Bug fixes: #980 #989 Restore event pointer behavior from Expat 2.6.4 (that the fix to CVE-2024-8176 changed in 2.7.0), affected API functions are: - XML_GetCurrentByteCount - XML_GetCurrentByteIndex - XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber - XML_GetCurrentLineNumber - XML_GetInputContext Other changes: #976 #977 Autotools: Integrate files 'fuzz/xml_lpm_fuzzer.{cpp,proto}' with Automake that were missing from 2.7.0 release tarballs #983 #984 Fix printf format specifiers for 32bit Emscripten #992 docs: Promote OpenSSF Best Practices self-certification #978 tests/benchmark: Resolve mistaken double close #986 Address compiler warnings #990 #993 Version info bumped from 11:1:10 (libexpat*.so.1.10.1) to 11:2:10 (libexpat*.so.1.10.2), see [link moved to references] for what these numbers do Infrastructure: #982 CI: Start running Perl XML::Parser integration tests #987 CI: Enforce Clang Static Analyzer clean code #991 CI: Re-enable warning clang-analyzer-valist.Uninitialized for clang-tidy #981 CI: Cover compilation with musl #983 #984 CI: Cover compilation with 32bit Emscripten #976 #977 CI: Protect against fuzzer files missing from future release archives - version update to 2.7.0 #935 #937 Autotools: Make generated CMake files look for libexpat.@SO_MAJOR@.dylib on macOS #925 Autotools: Sync CMake templates with CMake 3.29 #945 #962 #966 CMake: Drop support for CMake <3.13 #942 CMake: Small fuzzing related improvements #921 docs: Add missing documentation of error code XML_ERROR_NOT_STARTED that was introduced with 2.6.4 #941 docs: Document need for C++11 compiler for use from C++ #959 tests/benchmark: Fix a (harmless) TOCTTOU #944 Windows: Fix installer target location of file xmlwf.xml for CMake #953 Windows: Address warning -Wunknown-warning-option about -Wno-pedantic-ms-format from LLVM MinGW #971 Address Cppcheck warnings #969 #970 Mass-migrate links from http:// to https:// #947 #958 .. #974 #975 Document changes since the previous release #974 #975 Version info bumped from 11:0:10 (libexpat*.so.1.10.0) to 11:1:10 (libexpat*.so.1.10.1), see [link moved to references] for what these numbers do Affected Software/OS: 'expat' package(s) on openSUSE Leap 15.6. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 7.8 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2024-8176
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