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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 : Recommended update for gpg2 (SUSE-SU-2025:02259-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 241673

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02259-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-30258: Fixed DoS due to a malicious subkey in the keyring (bsc#1239119).

 Other bugfixes:

 - Do not install expired sks certificate (bsc#1243069).
 - gpg hangs when importing a key (bsc#1236931).

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 dirmngr, gpg2, gpg2-lang and / or gpg2-tpm packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1236931

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1239119

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1239817

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-July/040647.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-30258

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 241673

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02259-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/10/2025

Updated: 7/10/2025

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: 1.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.2

Temporal Score: 0.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-30258

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.7

Temporal Score: 2.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/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:gpg2-lang, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gpg2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dirmngr

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: 7/9/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/19/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-30258

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02259-1