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SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : python (SUSE-SU-2025:4313-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 277023

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:4313-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-8291: Check the validity the ZIP64 End of Central Directory (EOCD). (bsc#1251305)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1251305

http://www.nessus.org/u?39cde3c1

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8291

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 277023

File Name: suse_SU-2025-4313-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/2/2025

Updated: 12/2/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-8291

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-curses, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-gdbm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-xml, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython2_7-1_0, 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: 12/1/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/7/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-8291

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:4313-1