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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : containerd (SUSE-SU-2025:4072-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 275270

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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-2025:4072-1 advisory.

 - Update to containerd v1.7.29
 - CVE-2024-25621: Fixed an overly broad default permission vulnerability. (bsc#1253126)
 - CVE-2025-64329: Fixed a goroutine leaks which can lead to memory exhaustion on the host. (bsc#1253132)

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 containerd, containerd-ctr and / or containerd-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1253126

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1253132

http://www.nessus.org/u?c7cfa52e

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-25621

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-64329

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 275270

File Name: suse_SU-2025-4072-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/13/2025

Updated: 11/14/2025

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-25621

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 4.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-64329

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:containerd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:containerd-ctr, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:containerd-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 11/12/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/6/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-25621, CVE-2025-64329

IAVA: 2025-A-0832

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:4072-1