SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : python3 (SUSE-SU-2025:02778-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 278717

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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 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02778-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-4516: use-after-free in the unicode-escape decoder when using the error handler (bsc#1243273).
- CVE-2024-12718: Fixed extraction filter bypass that allowed file metadata modification outside extraction directory (bsc#1244056)
- CVE-2025-4138: Fixed issue that might allow symlink targets to point outside the destination directory, and the modification of some file metadata (bsc#1244059)
- CVE-2025-4330: Fixed extraction filter bypass that allowed linking outside extraction directory (bsc#1244060)
- CVE-2025-4435: Fixed Tarfile extracts filtered members when errorlevel=0 (bsc#1244061)
- CVE-2025-4517: Fixed arbitrary filesystem writes outside the extraction directory during extraction with filter='data' (bsc#1244032)
- CVE-2025-6069: Fixed worst case quadratic complexity when processing certain crafted malformed inputs with HTMLParser (bsc#1244705)
- CVE-2025-8194: Fixed denial of service caused by tar archives with negative offsets (bsc#1247249)

Other fixes:
- Limit buffer size for IPv6 address parsing (bsc#1244401).

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 278717

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02778-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/15/2025

Updated: 12/15/2025

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: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.7

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-4517

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Threat Score: 9.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-12718

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-curses, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-dbm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-idle, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-tk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython3_6m1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3, 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: 8/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/15/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-12718, CVE-2025-4138, CVE-2025-4330, CVE-2025-4435, CVE-2025-4516, CVE-2025-4517, CVE-2025-6069, CVE-2025-8194

IAVA: 2025-A-0444

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02778-1

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