SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : openssl-3 (SUSE-SU-2025:02042-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 240596

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-2025:02042-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-27587: timing side-channel vulnerability in the P-384 implementation when used with ECDSA (bsc#1243459).
- CVE-2024-12797: Fixed that RFC7250 handshakes with unauthenticated servers don't abort as expected.
(bsc#1236599)
- CVE-2024-13176: Fixed timing side-channel in ECDSA signature computation (bsc#1236136)

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: Medium

ID: 240596

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02042-1.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: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-12797

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl-3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl-3-fips-provider, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl-3-fips-provider-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl-3-devel, 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: 6/20/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/20/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-12797, CVE-2024-13176, CVE-2025-27587

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02042-1

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