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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : net-tools (SUSE-SU-2025:03260-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 265419

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:03260-1 advisory.

 Security issues fixed:

 - CVE-2025-46836: missing bounds check in `get_name` may lead to a stack buffer overflow (bsc#1243581).
 - Avoid unsafe use of `memcpy` in `ifconfig` (bsc#1248687).
 - Prevent overflow in `ax25` and `netrom` (bsc#1248687).
 - Fix stack buffer overflow in `parse_hex` (bsc#1248687).
 - Fix stack buffer overflow in `proc_gen_fmt` (bsc#1248687).

 Other issues fixed:

 - Allow use of long interface names after CVE-2025-46836 fix, even if they are not accepted by the kernel (bsc#1248410).
 - Fix netrom support.

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 net-tools, net-tools-deprecated and / or net-tools-lang packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1243581

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1246608

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46836

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1248410

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1248687

https://bugzilla.suse.com/142461

http://www.nessus.org/u?2e104220

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 265419

File Name: suse_SU-2025-03260-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/19/2025

Updated: 9/19/2025

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: 4.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-46836

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/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:net-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:net-tools-deprecated, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:net-tools-lang

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: 9/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/14/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-46836

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:03260-1