SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : jq (SUSE-SU-2025:02384-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 242379

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-2025:02384-1 advisory.

- CVE-2024-23337: Fixed signed integer overflow in jv.c:jvp_array_write (bsc#1243450).

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 jq, libjq-devel and / or libjq1 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 242379

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02384-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/19/2025

Updated: 7/19/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-23337

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjq-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjq1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:jq

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: 7/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/21/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-23337

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02384-1

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