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openSUSE 16 Security Update : xwayland (openSUSE-SU-2025-20099-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 277018

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2025-20099-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-62229: Fixed use-after-free in XPresentNotify structures creation (bsc#1251958).
 - CVE-2025-62230: Fixed use-after-free in Xkb client resource removal (bsc#1251959).
 - CVE-2025-62231: Fixed value overflow in Xkb extension XkbSetCompatMap() (bsc#1251960).

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 xwayland and / or xwayland-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1251958

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1251959

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1251960

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62229

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62230

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62231

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 277018

File Name: openSUSE-2025-20099-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/2/2025

Updated: 12/2/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-62231

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xwayland-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xwayland

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: 11/27/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/28/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-62229, CVE-2025-62230, CVE-2025-62231

IAVA: 2025-A-0808