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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : php8 (SUSE-SU-2025:02462-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 242600

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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-2025:02462-1 advisory.

 Version update to 8.3.23:

 - CVE-2025-1220: Fixed null byte termination in hostnames (bsc#1246167)
 - CVE-2025-1735: Fixed pgsql extension does not check for errors during escaping (bsc#1246146)
 - CVE-2025-6491: Fixed NULL Pointer Dereference in PHP SOAP Extension via Large XML Namespace Prefix (bsc#1246148)

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1246146

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1246148

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1246167

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-July/040863.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1220

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1735

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6491

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 242600

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02462-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/23/2025

Updated: 7/23/2025

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-1220

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-embed, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-iconv, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-sysvmsg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-soap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-fastcgi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-shmop, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-phar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-test, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-xmlreader, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-exif, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-posix, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-dba, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-gettext, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-bz2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-ftp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-fpm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-zlib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-pcntl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-sockets, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-intl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-tidy, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-xsl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-cli, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-opcache, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-pdo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-odbc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-zip, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-gd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-fileinfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-enchant, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-readline, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-sodium, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-sysvsem, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-calendar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-sysvshm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-gmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-mod_php8, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-ctype, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-snmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-dom, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-xmlwriter, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-tokenizer

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: 7/22/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/3/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-1220, CVE-2025-1735, CVE-2025-6491

IAVA: 2025-A-0497

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02462-1