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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : transfig (SUSE-SU-2025:1540-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 235927

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:1540-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-31164: Fixed heap-buffer overflow in fig2dev create_line_with_spline() function (bsc#1240379)
 - CVE-2025-31162: Fixed floating point exception in fig2dev get_slope() function (bsc#1240380)
 - CVE-2025-31163: Fixed segmentation fault in fig2dev put_patternarc() function (bsc#1240381)

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 transfig package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1240379

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1240380

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1240381

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-May/039209.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-31162

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-31163

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-31164

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 235927

File Name: suse_SU-2025-1540-1.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: 4.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-31164

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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: 3/28/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-31162, CVE-2025-31163, CVE-2025-31164

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:1540-1