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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ruby2.5 (SUSE-SU-2025:4264-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 277246

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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 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:4264-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-35221: Fixed remote DoS via YAML manifest (bsc#1225905)
 - CVE-2024-47220: Fixed HTTP request smuggling in WEBrick (bsc#1230930)
 - CVE-2024-49761: Fixed ReDOS vulnerability by updating REXML to 3.3.9 (bsc#1232440)
 - CVE-2025-24294: Fixed denial of service (DoS) caused by an insufficient check on the length of a decompressed domain name within a DNS packet in resolv gem (bsc#1246430)
 - CVE-2025-27219: Fixed denial of service in CGI::Cookie.parse (bsc#1237804)
 - CVE-2025-27220: Fixed ReDoS in CGI::Util#escapeElement (bsc#1237806)
 - CVE-2025-27221: Fixed userinfo leakage in URI#join, URI#merge and URI#+ (bsc#1237805)
 - CVE-2025-6442: Fixed ruby WEBrick read_header HTTP request smuggling vulnerability (bsc#1245254)

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/1225905

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1230930

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1232440

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1235773

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1237804

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1237805

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1237806

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1245254

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1246430

http://www.nessus.org/u?04eac882

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-35221

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-47220

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-49761

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-24294

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-27219

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-27220

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-27221

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6442

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 277246

File Name: suse_SU-2025-4264-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/3/2025

Updated: 12/3/2025

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-6442

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-49761

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5-stdlib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libruby2_5-2_5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5-devel-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5, 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: 11/26/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/29/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-35221, CVE-2024-47220, CVE-2024-49761, CVE-2025-24294, CVE-2025-27219, CVE-2025-27220, CVE-2025-27221, CVE-2025-6442

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:4264-1