SUSE SLES15 Security Update : 389-ds (SUSE-SU-2026:1753-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 313635

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-2026:1753-1 advisory.

Update to version 2.0.20~git89.937b1f291.

Security issues fixed:

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

Other updates and bugfixes:

- Issue 7224 - CI Test - Simplify `test_reserve_descriptor_validation` (#7225).
- Issue 7189 - DSBLE0007 generates incorrect remediation commands for scan limits.
- Issue 7172 - (2nd) Index ordering mismatch after upgrade (#7180).
- Issue 7172 - Index ordering mismatch after upgrade (#7173).
- Issue 7096 - During replication online total init the function idl_id_is_in_idlist is not scaling with large database (#7145).
- Issue 7091 - Duplicate local password policy entries listed (#7092).
- Issue 7124 - BDB cursor race condition with transaction isolation (#7125).
- Issue 7121 - LeakSanitizer: various leaks during replication (#7122).
- Issue 7115 - LeakSanitizer: leak in `slapd_bind_local_user()` (#7116).
- Issue 7109 - AddressSanitizer: SEGV `ldap/servers/slapd/csnset.c:302` in `csnset_dup` (#7114).
- Issue 7056 - DSBLE0007 doesn't generate remediation steps for missing indexes.
- Issue 6846 - Attribute uniqueness is not enforced with modrdn (#7026).
- Issue 7055 - Online initialization of consumers fails with error `-23` (#7075).
- Issue 7065 - A search filter containing a non normalized DN assertion does not return matching entries (#7068).
- Issue 7032 - The new ipahealthcheck test ipahealthcheck.ds.backends.BackendsCheck raises CRITICAL issue (#7036).
- Issue 6966 - On large DB, unlimited IDL scan limit reduce the SRCH performance (#6967).
- Issue 6848 - AddressSanitizer: leak in `do_search`.
- Issue 6928 - The `parentId` attribute is indexed with improper matching rule.
- Issue 6933 - When deferred `memberof` update is enabled after the server crashed it should not launch memberof fixup task by default (#6935).
- Issue 6929 - Compilation failure with `rust-1.89` on Fedora ELN.
- Issue 6859 - `str2filter` is not fully applying matching rules.
- Issue 6857 - `uiduniq`: allow specifying match rules in the filter.
- Issue 6893 - Log user that is updated during password modify extended operation.
- Issue 6680 - instance read-only mode is broken (#6681).

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 313635

File Name: suse_SU-2026-1753-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/10/2026

Updated: 5/10/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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:libsvrcore0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:389-ds-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:389-ds, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:lib389, 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: 5/7/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/23/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-14905

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:1753-1

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