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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : augeas (SUSE-SU-2025:01754-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 237535

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-2025:01754-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-2588: Check for NULL pointers when calling re_case_expand in function fa_expand_nocase.
 (bsc#1239909)

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 augeas, augeas-devel, augeas-lenses and / or libaugeas0 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1239909

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-May/039406.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2588

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 237535

File Name: suse_SU-2025-01754-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/30/2025

Updated: 5/30/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.7

Temporal Score: 1.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-2588

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 3

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Threat Score: 1.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:augeas-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:augeas, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:augeas-lenses, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libaugeas0

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: 5/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-2588

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:01754-1