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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : open-vm-tools (SUSE-SU-2025:01565-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 237548

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:01565-1 advisory.

 Update to 12.5.2:

 Security fixes:

 - CVE-2025-22247: Fixed Insecure file handling (bsc#1243106)

 Other fixes:

 - Fixed GCC 15 compile time error (bsc#1241938)
 - Fix building with containerd 1.7.25+ (bsc#1237147)

 Full changelog:

 https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.5.2/ReleaseNotes.md https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.5.2/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1237147

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1241938

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1243106

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-22247

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-May/039448.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 237548

File Name: suse_SU-2025-01565-1.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: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.2

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-22247

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools-containerinfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvmtools-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools-sdmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools-desktop, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvmtools0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools-salt-minion, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 5/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-22247

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:01565-1