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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2026:0889-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 302255

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:0889-1 advisory.

 This update for qemu fixes the following issue:

 - CVE-2025-14876: qemu-kvm: Unbounded allocation in virtio-crypto (bsc#1255400).

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 qemu-sgabios package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1255400

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14876

http://www.nessus.org/u?04e963c5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 302255

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0889-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2026

Updated: 3/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-14876

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-sgabios, 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: 3/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/18/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-14876

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0889-1