SUSE SLES15 Security Update : coreutils (SUSE-SU-2025:02354-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 242304

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02354-1 advisory.

Security fixes:

- CVE-2025-5278: Fixed heap buffer under-read may lead to a crash or leak sensitive data (bsc#1243767)

Other fixes:

- ls: avoid triggering automounts (bsc#1221632)
- tail: fix tailing sysfs files where PAGE_SIZE > BUFSIZ (bsc#1219321)

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 coreutils, coreutils-doc and / or coreutils-lang packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 242304

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02354-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/18/2025

Updated: 7/18/2025

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: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-5278

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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:coreutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:coreutils-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:coreutils-doc

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: 7/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-5278

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02354-1

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