Security update for perl-SOAP-Lite SUSE Patch security@suse.de SUSE Security Team SUSE-SU-2016:3052-1 Final 1 1 2016-12-08T10:05:32Z current 2016-12-08T10:05:32Z 2016-12-08T10:05:32Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf.pl 2017-02-24T01:00:00Z Security update for perl-SOAP-Lite This update for perl-SOAP-Lite fixes the following issue: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2015-8978: XML exponential entity expansion denial-of-service (bsc#1011836) The CVRF data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0). sdksp4-perl-SOAP-Lite-12876 Copyright SUSE LLC under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0) https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2016/suse-su-20163052-1/ Link for SUSE-SU-2016:3052-1 https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2016-December/002453.html E-Mail link for SUSE-SU-2016:3052-1 https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings https://bugzilla.suse.com/1011836 SUSE Bug 1011836 https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8978/ SUSE CVE CVE-2015-8978 page SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 perl-SOAP-Lite-0.710.08-3.1 perl-SOAP-Lite-0.710.08-3.1 as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 In Soap Lite (aka the SOAP::Lite extension for Perl) 1.14 and earlier, an example attack consists of defining 10 or more XML entities, each defined as consisting of 10 of the previous entity, with the document consisting of a single instance of the largest entity, which expands to one billion copies of the first entity. The amount of computer memory used for handling an external SOAP call would likely exceed that available to the process parsing the XML. CVE-2015-8978 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4:perl-SOAP-Lite-0.710.08-3.1 moderate 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2016/suse-su-20163052-1/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8978.html CVE-2015-8978 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1011836 SUSE Bug 1011836