SUSE SLES12 Security Update : regionServiceClientConfigGCE (SUSE-SU-2025:03171-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 264613

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:03171-1 advisory.

This update for regionServiceClientConfigGCE contains the following fixes:

- Update to version 5.0.0. (bsc#1246995)
- SLE 16 python-requests requires SSL v3 certificates. Update 2 region server certs to support SLE 16 when it gets released.

- Update conditional to handle name change of metadata package in SLE 16. (bsc#1242063)

- Add noipv6 patch

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 regionServiceClientConfigGCE package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 264613

File Name: suse_SU-2025-03171-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/12/2025

Updated: 9/12/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:regionserviceclientconfiggce

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: 9/11/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2025

Reference Information

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:03171-1

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