SUSE SLES15 Security Update : samba (SUSE-SU-2025:03618-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 270854

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:03618-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-9640: Fixed uninitialized memory disclosure via vfs_streams_xattr (bsc#1251279).
- CVE-2025-10230: Fixed command Injection in WINS server hook script (bsc#1251280).

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 270854

File Name: suse_SU-2025-03618-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/21/2025

Updated: 10/21/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-9640

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-winbind, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ctdb, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-policy-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-policy-python3-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-policy0-python3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-ceph, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-dsdb-modules, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-libs-python3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-python3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-gpupdate, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-ldb-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-client-libs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-winbind-libs, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-client-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-libs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-ad-dc-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-ad-dc-libs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-client-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-tool, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-winbind-libs-32bit

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: 10/16/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-10230, CVE-2025-9640

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:03618-1

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