SUSE SLES12 Security Update : brltty (SUSE-SU-2025:1583-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 237097

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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-2025:1583-1 advisory.

- Avoid having brlapi.key temporarily world-readable during creation (bsc#1235438).

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 brlapi-devel, brltty, libbrlapi0_6 and / or python3-brlapi packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 237097

File Name: suse_SU-2025-1583-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/22/2025

Updated: 5/22/2025

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:brlapi-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:brltty, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-brlapi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libbrlapi0_6

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: 5/19/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/19/2025

Reference Information

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:1583-1

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