SUSE SLES15 Security Update : nodejs22 (SUSE-SU-2025:01879-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 240773

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-2025:01879-1 advisory.

Update to version 22.15.1.

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2025-23166: remotely triggerable process crash due to improper error handling in async cryptographic operations (bsc#1243218).
- CVE-2025-23165: memory leak and unbounded memory growth due to corrupted pointer in `node::fs::ReadFileUtf8(const FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args)` when `args[0]` is a string (bsc#1243217).

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 nodejs22, nodejs22-devel, nodejs22-docs and / or npm22 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 240773

File Name: suse_SU-2025-01879-1.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: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-23166

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs22-docs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs22, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs22-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:npm22, 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: 5/14/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-23165, CVE-2025-23166

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:01879-1

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