SUSE SLES15 Security Update : libxslt (SUSE-SU-2026:0603-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 300072

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-2026:0603-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-11731: fixed a type confusion in exsltFuncResultComp function leading to denial of service (bsc#1251979)
- CVE-2025-10911: last fix caused a regression, patch was temporary disabled (bsc#1250553)

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 libxslt-devel, libxslt-tools and / or libxslt1 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 300072

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0603-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/27/2026

Updated: 2/27/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-11731

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-10911

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxslt-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxslt-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxslt1

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: 2/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/25/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-10911, CVE-2025-11731

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0603-1

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