SUSE SLES12 Security Update : gimp (SUSE-SU-2025:1546-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 235926

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:1546-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-2761: unvalidated user input in FLI file parsing may lead to an out-of-bounds write (bsc#1241691).

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 gimp-devel package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1241691

http://www.nessus.org/u?aa54b58b

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2761

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 235926

File Name: suse_SU-2025-1546-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-2761

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gimp-devel

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: 5/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/23/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-2761

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:1546-1