SUSE SLES15 Security Update : ffmpeg-4 (SUSE-SU-2025:02972-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 255197

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-2025:02972-1 advisory.

- CVE-2024-36618: Fixed integer overflow iff ULONG_MAX < INT64_MAX (bsc#1234020).
- CVE-2025-7700: Fixed potential NULL pointer dereference (bsc#1246790).

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 255197

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02972-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/26/2025

Updated: 8/26/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-36618

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:libavutil56_70, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libswresample3_9, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpostproc55_9, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavcodec58_134, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libswscale5_9, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libavformat58_76

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: 8/25/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/8/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-36618, CVE-2025-7700

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02972-1

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