openSUSE 15 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2025:3779-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 271428

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:3779-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-43718: fixed uncontrolled recursion in the regex-based metadata parser when processing specially crafted PDF files (bsc#1250908)
- CVE-2025-52885: improved pointer handling that could have led to dangling pointers when the vector is resized (bsc#1251940)

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/1250908

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1251940

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-October/042307.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-43718

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-52885

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 271428

File Name: suse_SU-2025-3779-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-43718

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.9

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Threat Score: 6.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-52885

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: 7/3/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-43718, CVE-2025-52885

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:3779-1