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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : libgepub (SUSE-SU-2025:02213-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 241236

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:02213-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-6196: Fixed an integer overflow in the EPUB archive handling code that can leads to massive memory allocation and application crash. (bsc#1244704)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libgepub-0_6-0 and / or typelib-1_0-Gepub-0_6 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1244704

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-July/040597.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6196

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 241236

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02213-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/3/2025

Updated: 7/3/2025

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: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-6196

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgepub-0_6-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-gepub-0_6

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: 7/2/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-6196

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02213-1