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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2025:4440-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 279061

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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-2025:4440-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-13499: Fixed Kafka dissector crash due to malformed packet (bsc#1254108).
 - CVE-2025-13946: Fixed MEGACO dissector infinite loop that allows denial of service (bsc#1254472).

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1254108

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1254472

http://www.nessus.org/u?8f1b29ff

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-13499

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-13946

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 279061

File Name: suse_SU-2025-4440-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/18/2025

Updated: 12/18/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-13946

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-13499

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wireshark, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wireshark-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwireshark17, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wireshark-ui-qt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwiretap14, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwsutil15

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: 12/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/8/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-13499, CVE-2025-13946

IAVB: 2025-B-0197

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:4440-1