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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libssh (SUSE-SU-2025:02281-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 242013

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02281-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-4877: Fixed write beyond bounds in binary to base64 conversion functions (bsc#1245309).
 - CVE-2025-4878: Fixed use of uninitialized variable in privatekey_from_file() (bsc#1245310).
 - CVE-2025-5318: Fixed likely read beyond bounds in sftp server handle management (bsc#1245311).
 - CVE-2025-5372: Fixed ssh_kdf() returns a success code on certain failures (bsc#1245314).

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 libssh-config, libssh-devel, libssh4 and / or libssh4-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1245309

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1245310

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1245311

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1245314

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4877

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4878

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5318

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5372

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-July/040679.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 242013

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02281-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2025

Updated: 7/12/2025

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: 4.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-5318

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/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:libssh4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libssh-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libssh-config, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libssh4-32bit

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: 7/10/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/24/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-4877, CVE-2025-4878, CVE-2025-5318, CVE-2025-5372

IAVA: 2025-A-0462

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02281-1