SUSE SLES15 Security Update : mariadb (SUSE-SU-2025:4491-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 279455

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:4491-1 advisory.

Update to version 10.5.29.

Release notes and changelog:

- https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-10-5-29-release-notes/
- https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-10-5-29-changelog/
- https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-10-5-28-release-notes/
- https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-10-5-28-changelog/

Security issues fixed:

- Version 10.5.28:
* CVE-2025-21490: InnoDB issue allows high privileged attacker with network access to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash of MySQL Server (bsc#1243356).

- Version 10.5.29:
* CVE-2025-30693: InnoDB issue allows high privileged attacker with network access to gain unauthorized update, insert or delete access to data and cause repeatable crash in MySQL server (bsc#1249213).
* CVE-2025-30722: mysqldump issue allows low privileged attacker with network access to gain unauthorized update, insert or delete access to data in MySQL Client (bsc#1249212).
* CVE-2023-52969: crash with empty backtrace log in MariaDB Server (bsc#1239150).
* CVE-2023-52970: crash in MariaDB Server when inserting from derived table containing insert target table (bsc#1239151).

- CVE-2025-13699: lack of proper validation of a user-supplied path prior to using it in file operations allows an attacker to execute code in the context of the current user (bsc#1254313).

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: Medium

ID: 279455

File Name: suse_SU-2025-4491-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/20/2025

Updated: 1/9/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-30722

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmariadbd-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmariadbd19, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mariadb-errormessages, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mariadb-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mariadb, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mariadb-client, 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: 12/19/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/21/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52969, CVE-2023-52970, CVE-2025-13699, CVE-2025-21490, CVE-2025-30693, CVE-2025-30722

IAVA: 2026-A-0015

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:4491-1

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