SUSE SLES15 Security Update : poppler (SUSE-SU-2025:3900-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 272150

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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-2025:3900-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-43718: Fixed uncontrolled recursion in the regex-based metadata parser when processing specially crafted PDF files allows for stack exhaustion and denial of service (bsc#1250908).
- CVE-2025-52885: Fixed raw pointers can lead 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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 272150

File Name: suse_SU-2025-3900-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/1/2025

Updated: 11/1/2025

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: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpoppler-glib8, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpoppler-cpp0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-poppler-0_18, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpoppler-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:poppler-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpoppler-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpoppler126, 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: 10/31/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/3/2025

Reference Information

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

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:3900-1

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