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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : apparmor (SUSE-SU-2025:1512-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 235637

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:1512-1 advisory.

 - Add dac_read_search capability for unix_chkpwd to allow it to read the shadow file even if it has 000 permissions. This is needed after the CVE-2024-10041 fix in PAM. (bsc#1241678)

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1241678

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-May/039188.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-10041

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 235637

File Name: suse_SU-2025-1512-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/9/2025

Updated: 5/9/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.8

Temporal Score: 2.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-10041

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-mod_apparmor, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apparmor-profiles, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-apparmor, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libapparmor1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apparmor-parser, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apparmor-docs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apparmor-utils-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pam_apparmor, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pam_apparmor-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apparmor-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apparmor-abstractions, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apparmor-parser-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libapparmor-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-apparmor, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libapparmor1-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 5/7/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-10041

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:1512-1