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SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : ovmf (SUSE-SU-2025:02516-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 242867

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02516-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-1298: Fixed potential UINT32 overflow in S3 ResumeCount (bsc#1225889).

 Other fixes:

 - Fixed Kubevirt GPU passthrough failure (bsc#1245542)

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1225889

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-1298

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1245542

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-July/040910.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 242867

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02516-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/26/2025

Updated: 7/26/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-1298

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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:ovmf, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ovmf-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ovmf-x86_64, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-uefi-aarch64, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ovmf-x86_64-debug, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-uefi-aarch32

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: 7/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/30/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-1298

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02516-1