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SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : php7 (SUSE-SU-2026:0245-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 296446

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-2026:0245-1 advisory.

 Security fixes:

 - CVE-2025-14178: heap buffer overflow occurs in array_merge() when the total element count of packed arrays exceeds 32-bit limits or HT_MAX_SIZE (bsc#1255711).

 Other fixes:

 - Add all php7 packages to PackageHUB (unsupported), no source changes. (bsc#1251932)

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1255711

http://www.nessus.org/u?9b38d98d

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14178

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 296446

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0245-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2026

Updated: 1/24/2026

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: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-14178

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-iconv, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-cli, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-fpm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-zlib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-tokenizer, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-xmlreader, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-ctype, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-fileinfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-posix, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-snmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-sysvmsg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-xsl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-mod_php7, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-dba, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-readline, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-odbc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-test, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-exif, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-enchant, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-opcache, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-pdo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-shmop, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-sysvshm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-bz2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-dom, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-tidy, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-sysvsem, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-gettext, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-calendar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-intl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-json, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-sodium, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-phar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-xmlwriter, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-embed, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-pcntl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-xmlrpc, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-gd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-sockets, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-gmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-fastcgi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-zip, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-soap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-ftp

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: 1/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-14178

IAVA: 2026-A-0020

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0245-1