SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : warewulf4 (SUSE-SU-2025:03448-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 266438

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:03448-1 advisory.

Update to version 4.6.4.

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2025-58058: xz: excessive memory consuption when unpacking a large number of corrupted LZMA archives (bsc#1248906).

Other issues fixed:

- Convert disk booleans from `wwbool` to `*bool` which allows bools in disk to be set to false via command line (bsc#1248768).
- Fix `wwctl` upgrade nodes to handle kernel argument lists (bsc#1227686, bsc#1227465).
- Mark `slurm` as recommeneded in the `warewulf4-overlay-slurm` package (bsc#1246082).
- Switch to `dnsmasq` as default DHCP and TFTP provider.

- v4.6.4 release updates:
* Update NetworkManager Overlay
* Disable IPv4 in NetworkManager if no address or route is specified
* Fix(`wwctl`): create overlay edit `tempfile` in `tmpdir`
* Add default for systemd name for warewulf in `warewulf.conf`
* Atomic overlay file application in `wwclient`
* Simpler names for overlay methods
* Fix `warewulfd` API behavior when deleting distribution overlay

- v4.6.3 release updates:
* IPv6 iPXE support
* Fix a race condition in `wwctl` overlay edit
* Fixed handling of comma-separated mount options in `fstab` and `ignition` overlays
* Move `reexec.Init()` to beginning of `wwctl`
* Added `warewuld` configure option
* Address copilot review from #1945
* Bugfix: cloning a site overlay when parent dir does not exist
* Clone to a site overlay when adding files in `wwapi`
* Consolidated `createOverlayFile` and `updateOverlayFile` to `addOverlayFile`
* Support for creating and updating overlay file in `wwapi`
* Only return overlay files that refer to a path within the overlay
* Add overlay file deletion support
* `DELETE /api/overlays/{id}?force=true` can delete overlays in use
* Restore idempotency of `PUT /api/nodes/{id}`
* Simplify overlay mtime API and add tests
* Add node overlay buildtime
* Improved `netplan` support
* Rebuild overlays for discovered nodes

- v4.6.2 release updates:
* (preview) support for provisioning to local disk

- incoperated from v4.6.1:
* REST API, which is disabled in the default configuration

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 266438

File Name: suse_SU-2025-03448-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/3/2025

Updated: 10/3/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-58058

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:warewulf4-reference-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:warewulf4-man, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:warewulf4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:warewulf4-overlay, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:warewulf4-overlay-slurm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:warewulf4-dracut

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: 10/2/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/28/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-58058

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:03448-1

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