openSUSE 15 Security Update : perl-Data-Entropy (openSUSE-SU-2025:0123-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 234542

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2025:0123-1 advisory.

Updated to 0.8.0 (0.008):

see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-Data-Entropy/Changes

Version 0.008; 2025-03-27:

* Use Crypt::URandom to seed the default algorithm with cryptographically secure random bytes instead of the builtin rand() function (boo#1240395, CVE-2025-1860).
* This module has been marked as deprecated.
* A security policy was added.
* Remove use of Module::Build.
* Updated maintainer information.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected perl-Data-Entropy package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 234542

File Name: openSUSE-2025-0123-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/17/2025

Updated: 4/17/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-1860

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.6, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-data-entropy

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/16/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/28/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-1860

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