SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : nbdkit (SUSE-SU-2025:01889-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 240796

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:01889-1 advisory.

Update to version 1.36.5.

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:

- tests: Add test-blkio.sh to unconditional EXTRA_DIST rule.
- Revert 'valgrind: Add suppression for liblzma bug'.
- vddk: Move 'Unknown error' information to the manual.
- ocaml Add better comments to the example plugin.
- ocaml: Simplify pread operation.
- ocaml: Define a struct handle to hold the OCaml handle.
- ocaml: Add OCaml version to --dump-plugin output.
- ocaml: Print callback name when an exception is printed.
- ocaml: Combine all exception printing into a single macro.

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: 240796

File Name: suse_SU-2025-01889-1.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-2025:01889-1

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