SUSE SLES15 Security Update : nbdkit (SUSE-SU-2025:01888-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 240765

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-2025:01888-1 advisory.

Update to version 1.40.6.

Security fixes:

- CVE-2025-47712: integer overflow in blocksize filter when processing client block status requests larger than 2**32 will trigger an assertion failure and cause a denial-of-service. (bsc#1243108).
- CVE-2025-47711: off-by-one error when processing block status results from plugins on behalf of an NBD client may trigger an assertion failure and cause a denial of service (bsc#1243110).

Other fixes and changes:

- golang: Support GCC 15.
- openbsd: curl: Include pthread.h.
- rust: Fix 'overindented' list in comment.
- rust: Declare explicit extern 'C' API.
- plugins/rust: Use CStr literals for static strings.
- vddk: do_extents: Avoid reading partial chunk beyond the end of the disk.
- vddk: do_extents: Exit the function if we hit req_one condition.
- vddk: do_extents: Mark some local variables const.
- vddk: Cache the disk size in the handle.
- vddk: Include <stdbool.h>.
- python: examples: Fix comment above API_VERSION constant.
- tcl: Fix for Tcl 9.0 compatibility.
- plugins/ocaml/NBDKit.ml: Sort bindings into order.
- ocaml: Don't call abort if caml_c_thread_unregister fails.
- ocaml: Use real addresses instead of (void*)<constant>s.
- evil: Link to nbdkit_parse_probability(3).

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: 240765

File Name: suse_SU-2025-01888-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/27/2025

Updated: 6/27/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-47712

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nbdkit-curl-plugin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nbdkit-python-plugin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nbdkit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nbdkit-ssh-plugin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nbdkit-vddk-plugin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nbdkit-basic-filters, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nbdkit-basic-plugins, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nbdkit-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nbdkit-nbd-plugin, 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: 6/11/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-47711, CVE-2025-47712

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:01888-1

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