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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : bind (SUSE-SU-2025:4108-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 275508

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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-2025:4108-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-40778: Address various spoofing attacks (bsc#1252379).
 - CVE-2025-40780: Cache-poisoning due to weak pseudo-random number generator (bsc#1252380).

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 bind, bind-doc, bind-utils and / or python3-bind packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1252379

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1252380

http://www.nessus.org/u?e00a481e

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40778

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40780

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 275508

File Name: suse_SU-2025-4108-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/16/2025

Updated: 11/16/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-40780

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-bind, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 11/14/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/22/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-40778, CVE-2025-40780

IAVA: 2025-A-0800

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:4108-1