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openSUSE 16 Security Update : strongswan (openSUSE-SU-2025-20132-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 277555

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2025-20132-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-62291: Fixed buffer overflow when handling EAP-MSCHAPv2 failure requests (bsc#1251941).

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/1251941

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62291

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 277555

File Name: openSUSE-2025-20132-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/5/2025

Updated: 12/5/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-62291

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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:strongswan-fips, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-ipsec, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-nm

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: 12/2/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-62291