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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : freetype2 (SUSE-SU-2025:1528-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 235671

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:1528-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-23022: signed integer overflow in cf2_doFlex in cff/cf2intrp.c. (bsc#1235670)

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 freetype2-devel, ft2demos, libfreetype6 and / or libfreetype6-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1235670

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-May/039199.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-23022

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 235671

File Name: suse_SU-2025-1528-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/10/2025

Updated: 5/10/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-23022

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libfreetype6-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freetype2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libfreetype6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ft2demos

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/9/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-23022

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:1528-1