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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : 389-ds (SUSE-SU-2026:0915-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 302997

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:0915-1 advisory.

 Update to LTS branch 2.7 (jsc#PED-14342):

 - CVE-2025-14905: Fixed heap buffer overflow due to improper size calculation in `schema_attr_enum_callback` callback (bsc#1258727).

 Bug fixes:

 - Resolve python build error that caused lib389 to be missing some libraries. (bsc#1258689)

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 389-ds, 389-ds-devel, lib389 and / or libsvrcore0 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1258689

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1258727

http://www.nessus.org/u?161ea77b

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14905

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 302997

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0915-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/19/2026

Updated: 3/19/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-14905

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:lib389, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:389-ds, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:389-ds-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsvrcore0, 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: 3/18/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/23/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-14905

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0915-1