SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : dpdk22 (SUSE-SU-2025:4534-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 281464

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:4534-1 advisory.

Update to version 22.11.10.

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2025-23259: issue in the Poll Mode Driver (PMD) allows an attacker on a VM in the system to leak information and cause a denial of service on the network interface (bsc#1254161).

Other updates and bugfixes:

- Fix SUSE provided DPDK modules tainting the kernel as unsupported (bsc#1214724).

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 281464

File Name: suse_SU-2025-4534-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/31/2025

Updated: 12/31/2025

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: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-23259

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dpdk22, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dpdk22-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dpdk22-thunderx-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dpdk22-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dpdk22-thunderx, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dpdk22-thunderx-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dpdk22-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdpdk-23, 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: 12/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/2/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-23259

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:4534-1

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