SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : python311 (SUSE-SU-2025:02089-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 240549

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02089-1 advisory.

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2024-6923: Fixed email header injection due to unquoted newlines (bsc#1228780)
- CVE-2024-0397: Fixed memory race condition in ssl.SSLContext certificate store methods (bsc#1226447)
- CVE-2024-4032: Fixed incorrect IPv4 and IPv6 private ranges (bsc#1226448)

Non-security issues fixed:

- Fixed executable bits for /usr/bin/idle* (bsc#1227378).
- Improve python reproducible builds (bsc#1227999)
- Make pip and modern tools install directly in /usr/local when used by the user (bsc#1225660)
- %{profileopt} variable is set according to the variable %{do_profiling} (bsc#1227999)

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 240549

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02089-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/25/2025

Updated: 6/26/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-6923

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-4032

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-curses, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-idle, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython3_11-1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-tk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-dbm, 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: 6/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-0397, CVE-2024-4032, CVE-2024-6923

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02089-1

Detections

Analytics