SUSE SLES15 Security Update : systemd (SUSE-SU-2025:02019-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 240826

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-2025:02019-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-4598: Race condition that allows a local attacker to crash a SUID program and gain read access to the resulting core dump (bsc#1243935).
- CVE-2023-26604: Privilege escalation via the less pager (bsc#1208958).
- CVE-2022-4415: systemd-coredump was not respecting fs.suid_dumpable kernel setting (bsc#1205000).

Other bugfixes:

- clarify passno and noauto combination in /etc/fstab (bsc#1211725)
- handle -EINTR return from bus_poll() (bsc#1215241)
- /usr/ should never be unmounted regardless of HAVE_SPLIT_USR or not (bsc#1211576)

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1205000

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1208958

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1211576

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1211725

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1215241

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1243935

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-June/040371.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4598

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4415

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-26604

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 240826

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02019-1.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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.2

Temporal Score: 2.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-4598

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-26604

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-journal-remote, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-container, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:udev, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-coredump, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-sysvinit

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/19/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/20/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-4415, CVE-2023-26604, CVE-2025-4598

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02019-1