SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : snpguest (SUSE-SU-2025:03445-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 266392

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:03445-1 advisory.

- CVE-2024-12224: idna: acceptance of Punycode labels that do not produce any non-ASCII output may lead to incorrect hostname comparisons and incorrect URL parsing (bsc#1243869).
- CVE-2025-3416: openssl: use-after-free in `Md::fetch` and `Cipher::fetch` when `Some(...)` value is passed to the `properties` argument (bsc#1242601).

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 snpguest package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 266392

File Name: suse_SU-2025-03445-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/2/2025

Updated: 10/2/2025

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-12224

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Threat Score: 2.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:L/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:snpguest, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 10/1/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-12224, CVE-2025-3416

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:03445-1

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