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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : cups (SUSE-SU-2025:4289-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 277269
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.Description
The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:4289-1 advisory.- CVE-2025-61915: Fixed local denial-of-service via cupsd.conf update (bsc#1253783)
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/1253783
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 277269
File Name: suse_SU-2025-4289-1.nasl
Version: 1.2
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 12/3/2025
Updated: 2/27/2026
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.5
Temporal Score: 5.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-61915
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.7
Temporal Score: 6
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-libs, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-libs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-devel
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: 11/28/2025
Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2025
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2025-61915
SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:4289-1