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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : xwayland (SUSE-SU-2025:01975-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 240779

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 a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:01975-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-49175: Out-of-bounds access in X Rendering extension (Animated cursors) (bsc#1244082)
 - CVE-2025-49176: Integer overflow in Big Requests Extension (bsc#1244084)
 - CVE-2025-49177: Data leak in XFIXES Extension 6 (XFixesSetClientDisconnectMode) (bsc#1244085)
 - CVE-2025-49178: Unprocessed client request via bytes to ignore (bsc#1244087)
 - CVE-2025-49179: Integer overflow in X Record extension (bsc#1244089)
 - CVE-2025-49180: Integer overflow in RandR extension (RRChangeProviderProperty) (bsc#1244090)

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 xwayland package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1244082

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1244084

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1244085

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1244087

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1244089

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1244090

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-June/040330.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-49175

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-49176

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-49177

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-49178

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-49179

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-49180

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 240779

File Name: suse_SU-2025-01975-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

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: 5.5

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-2025-49180

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-49179

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xwayland, 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: 6/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-49175, CVE-2025-49176, CVE-2025-49177, CVE-2025-49178, CVE-2025-49179, CVE-2025-49180

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:01975-1