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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : transfig (SUSE-SU-2025:01890-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 240841

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:01890-1 advisory.

 Update to fig2dev version 3.2.9a

 - CVE-2025-46397: Fixed a stack buffer overflow in fig2dev in bezier_spline function (bsc#1243260).
 - CVE-2025-46398: Fixed a stack buffer overflow in fig2dev in read_objects function (bsc#1243262).
 - CVE-2025-46399: Fixed a segmentation fault in fig2dev in genge_itp_spline function (bsc#1243263).
 - CVE-2025-46400: Fixed a segmentation fault in fig2dev in read_arcobject function (bsc#1243261).

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 transfig package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1243260

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1243261

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1243262

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1243263

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-June/040219.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46397

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46398

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46399

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46400

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 240841

File Name: suse_SU-2025-01890-1.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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-46400

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:transfig

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: 4/23/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-46397, CVE-2025-46398, CVE-2025-46399, CVE-2025-46400

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:01890-1