SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : libsoup2 (SUSE-SU-2025:01503-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 237565

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:01503-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-2784: Fixed heap buffer over-read in `skip_insignificant_space` when sniffing conten (bsc#1240750)
- CVE-2025-32050: Fixed integer overflow in append_param_quoted (bsc#1240752)
- CVE-2025-32052: Fixed heap buffer overflow in sniff_unknown() (bsc#1240756)
- CVE-2025-32053: Fixed heap buffer overflows in sniff_feed_or_html() and skip_insignificant_space() (bsc#1240757)
- CVE-2025-32907: Fixed excessive memory consumption in server when client requests a large amount of overlapping ranges in a single HTTP request (bsc#1241222)
- CVE-2025-32914: Fixed out of bounds read in `soup_multipart_new_from_message()` (bsc#1241164)
- CVE-2025-46420: Fixed memory leak on soup_header_parse_quality_list() via soup-headers.c (bsc#1241686)
- CVE-2025-46421: Fixed HTTP Authorization Header leak via an HTTP redirect (bsc#1241688)

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 libsoup-2_4-1, libsoup2-devel, libsoup2-lang and / or typelib-1_0-Soup-2_4 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 237565

File Name: suse_SU-2025-01503-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

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: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-32914

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-soup-2_4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoup2-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoup2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoup-2_4-1, 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: 4/3/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-2784, CVE-2025-32050, CVE-2025-32052, CVE-2025-32053, CVE-2025-32907, CVE-2025-32914, CVE-2025-46420, CVE-2025-46421

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:01503-1

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