openSUSE 16 Security Update : python-cbor2 (openSUSE-SU-2025-20133-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 277556

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2025-20133-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-64076: Fixed bug in decode_definite_long_string() that causes incorrect chunk length calculation (bsc#1253746).

Already fixed in release 5.6.3:

- CVE-2024-26134: Fixed potential crash when hashing a CBORTag (bsc#1220096).

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 python313-cbor2 package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 277556

File Name: openSUSE-2025-20133-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/5/2025

Updated: 12/5/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-26134

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python313-cbor2

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: 12/2/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-26134, CVE-2025-64076

Detections

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