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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : elfutils (SUSE-SU-2025:4092-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 276799

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:4092-1 advisory.

 - Fixing build/testsuite for more recent glibc and kernels.

 - Fixing denial of service and general buffer overflow errors (bsc#1237236, bsc#1237240, bsc#1237241, bsc#1237242):

 - CVE-2025-1376: Fixed denial of service in function elf_strptr in the library /libelf/elf_strptr.c of the component eu-strip
 - CVE-2025-1377: Fixed denial of service in function gelf_getsymshndx of the file strip.c of the component eu-strip
 - CVE-2025-1372: Fixed buffer overflow in function dump_data_section/print_string_section of the file readelf.c of the component eu-readelf
 - CVE-2025-1352: Fixed SEGV (illegal read access) in function __libdw_thread_tail in the library libdw_alloc.c of the component eu-readelf

 - Fixing testsuite race conditions in run-debuginfod-find.sh.

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/1237236

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1237240

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1237241

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1237242

http://www.nessus.org/u?9280730d

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1352

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1372

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1376

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1377

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 276799

File Name: suse_SU-2025-4092-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/25/2025

Updated: 11/25/2025

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: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-1352

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-1372

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-1377

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libasm-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:elfutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:elfutils-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libelf1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdw1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libelf1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libasm1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdw-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdw1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libelf-devel, 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: 11/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-1352, CVE-2025-1372, CVE-2025-1376, CVE-2025-1377

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:4092-1