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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : cairo (SUSE-SU-2025:03450-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 266440

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-2025:03450-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2019-6461: Avoid assert when drawing arcs with NaN angles. (bsc#1122338)
 - CVE-2025-50422: Fix NULL pointer access in `active_edges_to_traps()` leading to crash in Poppler.
 (bsc#1247589)

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1122338

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1247589

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-October/041994.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6461

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-50422

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 266440

File Name: suse_SU-2025-03450-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/3/2025

Updated: 10/3/2025

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-6461

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcairo-gobject2-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcairo2-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcairo-gobject2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcairo-script-interpreter2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcairo2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cairo-devel

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: 10/2/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-6461, CVE-2025-50422

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:03450-1