SUSE SLES15 Security Update : python311 (SUSE-SU-2025:02049-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 240606

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-2025:02049-1 advisory.

python311 was updated from version 3.11.10 to 3.11.13:

- Security issues fixed:

* CVE-2025-4516: Fixed blocking DecodeError handling vulnerability, which could lead to DoS (bsc#1243273).
* CVE-2024-12718, CVE-2025-4138, CVE-2025-4330, CVE-2025-4517: Fixed multiple issues that allowed tarfile extraction filters to be bypassed using crafted symlinks and hard links (bsc#1244056, bsc#1244059, bsc#1244060, bsc#1244032)

- Other bugs fixed:

* Improved handling of system call failures that OpenSSL reports (bsc#1241067)
* Disable GC during thread operations to prevent deadlocks.
* Fixed a potential denial of service vulnerability in the imaplib module.
* Fixed bugs in the in the folding of rfc2047 encoded-words and in the folding of quoted strings when flattening an email message using a modern email policy.
* Fixed parsing long IPv6 addresses with embedded IPv4 address.
* Fixed ipaddress.IPv6Address.reverse_pointer output according to RFC 3596.
* Improved the textual representation of IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses in ipaddress.
* ipaddress: fixed hash collisions for IPv4Network and IPv6Network objects
* os.path.realpath() now accepts a strict keyword-only argument.
* Stop the processing of long IPv6 addresses early in ipaddress to prevent excessive memory consumption and a minor denial-of-service.
* Updated bundled libexpat to 2.7.1
* Writers of CPython documentation can now use next as the version for the versionchanged, versionadded, deprecated directives.

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: 240606

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02049-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/26/2025

Updated: 6/26/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.7

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-4517

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython3_11-1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-curses, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-dbm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-doc-devhelp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-idle, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-tk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-tools

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: 5/15/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-12718, CVE-2025-4138, CVE-2025-4330, CVE-2025-4516, CVE-2025-4517

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02049-1

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