openSUSE 15 Security Update : chrony (SUSE-SU-2025:3794-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 271426

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:3794-1 advisory.

- Race condition during socket creation by chronyc allows privilege escalation from user chrony to root (bsc#1246544).

This update also ships chrony-pool-empty to SLE Micro 5.x (jsc#SMO-587)

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 chrony, chrony-pool-empty, chrony-pool-openSUSE and / or chrony-pool-suse packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 271426

File Name: suse_SU-2025-3794-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/25/2025

Updated: 10/25/2025

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 10/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/24/2025

Reference Information

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:3794-1

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