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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : systemd (SUSE-SU-2025:02243-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 241606
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.Description
The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:02243-1 advisory.- CVE-2025-4598: Fixed race condition that allows a local attacker to crash a SUID program and gain read access to the resulting core dump (bsc#1243935).
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 packages.See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1243935
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-July/040640.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 241606
File Name: suse_SU-2025-02243-1.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 7/9/2025
Updated: 7/9/2025
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: 5.1
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: Medium
Base Score: 4.7
Temporal Score: 4.2
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, 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:udev, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-devel, 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: 7/8/2025
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/29/2025
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2025-4598
SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02243-1