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openSUSE 16 Security Update : act (openSUSE-SU-2025-20138-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 277656

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2025-20138-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-47913: Prevent panic in embedded golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/agent client when receiving unexpected message types for key listing or signing requests (boo#1253608)

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 act package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1253608

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-47913

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 277656

File Name: openSUSE-2025-20138-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/8/2025

Updated: 12/8/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-47913

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 12/4/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/13/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-47913