Upstream information

CVE-2015-8978 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 5 4.3
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network Network
Access Complexity Low Medium
Authentication None None
Confidentiality Impact None None
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact Partial Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1011836 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
  • perl-SOAP-Lite >= 0.710.08-3.1
Patchnames:
sdksp4-perl-SOAP-Lite-12876


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 perl-SOAP-Lite Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 perl-SOAP-Lite Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 perl-SOAP-Lite Not affected
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 perl-SOAP-Lite Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 perl-SOAP-Lite Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 perl-SOAP-Lite Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 perl-SOAP-Lite Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 perl-SOAP-Lite Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 perl-SOAP-Lite Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 perl-SOAP-Lite Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 perl-SOAP-Lite Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 perl-SOAP-Lite Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 perl-SOAP-Lite Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 perl-SOAP-Lite Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 perl-SOAP-Lite Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 perl-SOAP-Lite Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 perl-SOAP-Lite Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3 perl-SOAP-Lite Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 perl-SOAP-Lite Not affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Nov 22 22:15:06 2016
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 13 19:07:16 2023