SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : java-1_8_0-openjdk (SUSE-SU-2025:1525-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 235673

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:1525-1 advisory.

Update to version jdk8u452 (icedtea-3.35.0)

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2025-21587: unauthorized creation, deletion or modification of critical data through the JSSE component.
(bsc#1241274)
- CVE-2025-30691: unauthorized update, insert or delete access to a subset of Oracle Java SE data through the Compiler component. (bsc#1241275)
- CVE-2025-30698: unauthorized access to Oracle Java SE data and unauthorized ability to cause partial DoS through the 2D component. (bsc#1241276)

Non-security issues fixed:

- JDK-8212096: javax/net/ssl/ServerName/SSLEngineExplorerMatchedSNI.java failed intermittently due to SSLException:
Tag mismatch.
- JDK-8261020: wrong format parameter in create_emergency_chunk_path.
- JDK-8266881: enable debug log for SSLEngineExplorerMatchedSNI.java.
- JDK-8268457: XML Transformer outputs Unicode supplementary character incorrectly to HTML.
- JDK-8309841: Jarsigner should print a warning if an entry is removed.
- JDK-8337494: clarify JarInputStream behavior.
- JDK-8339637: (tz) update Timezone Data to 2024b.
- JDK-8339644: improve parsing of Day/Month in tzdata rules
- JDK-8339810: clean up the code in sun.tools.jar.Main to properly close resources and use ZipFile during extract.
- JDK-8340552: harden TzdbZoneRulesCompiler against missing zone names.
- JDK-8342562: enhance Deflater operations.
- JDK-8346587: distrust TLS server certificates anchored by Camerfirma Root CAs.
- JDK-8347847: enhance jar file support.
- JDK-8347965: (tz) update Timezone Data to 2025a.
- JDK-8348211: [8u] sun/management/jmxremote/startstop/JMXStartStopTest.java fails after backport of JDK-8066708.
- JDK-8350816: [8u] update TzdbZoneRulesCompiler to ignore HST/EST/MST links.
- JDK-8352097: (tz) zone.tab update missed in 2025a backport.
- JDK-8353433: XCG currency code not recognized in JDK 8u.

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 235673

File Name: suse_SU-2025-1525-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

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: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-21587

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-openjdk-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-openjdk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-openjdk-demo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-openjdk-headless

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: 5/9/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/15/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-21587, CVE-2025-30691, CVE-2025-30698

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:1525-1

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