SUSE-SU-2015:0597-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2015-03-09 14:57 - Updated: 2026-09-20 12:01
Summary
Security update for Xerces-C
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for Xerces-C
Description of the patch: The Xerces-C XML parsing library was updated to fix mishandling certain kinds of malformed input documents, that could have resulted in a segmentation faults during a parse operation, leading to denial of service or potential code execution. (bnc#920810,CVE-2015-0252)
Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-144,SUSE-SLE-WE-12-2015-144
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12:libxerces-c-3_1-0:3.1.1-4.1.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12:libxerces-c-3_1-32bit-0:3.1.1-4.1.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12:libxerces-c-3_1-0:3.1.1-4.1.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12:libxerces-c-3_1-32bit-0:3.1.1-4.1.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12:libxerces-c-3_1-0:3.1.1-4.1.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12:libxerces-c-3_1-32bit-0:3.1.1-4.1.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12:libxerces-c-3_1-0:3.1.1-4.1.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12:libxerces-c-3_1-32bit-0:3.1.1-4.1.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact moderate

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