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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : gnuplot (SUSE-SU-2025:01811-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 242215

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:01811-2 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-31176: invalid read leads to segmentation fault on plot3d_points (bsc#1240325).
 - CVE-2025-31177: improper bounds check leads to heap-buffer overflow on utf8_copy_one (bsc#1240326).
 - CVE-2025-31178: unvalidated user input leads to segmentation fault on GetAnnotateString (bsc#1240327).
 - CVE-2025-31179: improper verification of time values leads to segmentation fault on xstrftime (bsc#1240328).
 - CVE-2025-31180: unchecked invalid pointer access leads to segmentation fault on CANVAS_text (bsc#1240329).
 - CVE-2025-31181: double fclose() call leads to segmentation fault on X11_graphics (bsc#1240330).
 - CVE-2025-3359: out-of-bounds read when parsing font names may lead to a segmentation fault (bsc#1241684).

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 gnuplot and / or gnuplot-doc packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1240325

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1240326

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1240327

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1240328

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1240329

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1240330

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1241684

http://www.nessus.org/u?9e82ebb1

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-31176

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-31177

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-31178

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-31179

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-31180

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-31181

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-3359

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 242215

File Name: suse_SU-2025-01811-2.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/17/2025

Updated: 7/17/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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-2025-3359

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gnuplot, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gnuplot-doc, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 7/16/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-31176, CVE-2025-31177, CVE-2025-31178, CVE-2025-31179, CVE-2025-31180, CVE-2025-31181, CVE-2025-3359

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:01811-2