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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : libsoup (SUSE-SU-2025:01817-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 237888

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:01817-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-4969: Fixed off-by-one out-of-bounds read may lead to infoleak (bsc#1243423)
 - CVE-2025-4948: Fixed integer underflow in soup_multipart_new_from_message() leading to denial of service (bsc#1243332)
 - CVE-2025-4476: Fixed NULL pointer dereference may lead to denial of service (bsc#1243422)

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-3_0-0, libsoup-devel, libsoup-lang and / or typelib-1_0-Soup-3_0 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1243332

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1243422

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1243423

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-June/040146.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4476

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4948

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4969

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 237888

File Name: suse_SU-2025-01817-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/6/2025

Updated: 6/6/2025

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-4969

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoup-3_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-soup-3_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoup-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoup-lang, 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: 6/5/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/16/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-4476, CVE-2025-4948, CVE-2025-4969

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:01817-1