SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : python313 (SUSE-SU-2025:02074-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 240592

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-2025:02074-1 advisory.

Update to version 3.13.5.

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2025-4517: arbitrary filesystem writes outside the extraction directory during extraction with filter='data' (bsc#1244032)
- CVE-2025-4516: use-after-free in the unicode-escape decoder when using the error handler (bsc#1243273).
- CVE-2025-4330: extraction filter bypass for linking outside extraction directory (bsc#1244060)
- CVE-2025-4138: may allow symlink targets to point outside the destination directory, and the modification of some file metadata.
(bsc#1244059)
- CVE-2025-0938: domain names containing square brackets are not identified as incorrect by urlparse (bsc#1236705).
- CVE-2024-12718: bypass extraction filter to modify file metadata outside extraction directory (bsc#1244056)
- CVE-2024-12254: memory exhaustion due to unbounded memory buffering in `SelectorSocketTransport.writelines()` (bsc#1234290).

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: Critical

ID: 240592

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02074-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/26/2025

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: High

Score: 8.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-9287

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Threat Score: 9.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-12718

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python313-idle, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python313-dbm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython3_13-1_0, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python313-tk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python313-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python313, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python313-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python313-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python313-curses

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: 10/22/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-12254, CVE-2024-12718, CVE-2024-9287, CVE-2025-0938, CVE-2025-1795, CVE-2025-4138, CVE-2025-4330, CVE-2025-4516, CVE-2025-4517

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02074-1

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