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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libarchive (SUSE-SU-2025:02522-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 260437

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02522-2 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-5916, Fixed integer overflow while reading warc files at archive_read_support_format_warc.c (bsc#1244270)
 - CVE-2025-5914: Fixed double free due to an integer overflow in the archive_read_format_rar_seek_data() function (bsc#1244272)

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 libarchive-devel and / or libarchive13 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1244270

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1244272

http://www.nessus.org/u?ffe062f6

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5914

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5916

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 260437

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02522-2.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/2/2025

Updated: 9/2/2025

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.2

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-5916

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libarchive-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libarchive13, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 9/1/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-5914, CVE-2025-5916

IAVA: 2024-A-0834-S, 2025-A-0551

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02522-2