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openSUSE 15 Security Update : qt6-webengine (openSUSE-SU-2025:0024-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 214570

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2025:0024-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-40896: Fixed a XML external entity vulnerability related to libxml2 (boo#1234820)

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/1234820

http://www.nessus.org/u?8341afe5

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-40896

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 214570

File Name: openSUSE-2025-0024-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2025

Updated: 1/24/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-40896

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qt6-pdf-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libqt6webenginewidgets6, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qt6-webengine-imports, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qt6-webengine, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qt6-pdfquick-private-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libqt6pdfwidgets6, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qt6-pdf-private-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qt6-webenginequick-private-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qt6-webenginewidgets-private-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.6, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qt6-webenginecore-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qt6-webenginecore-private-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qt6-webenginewidgets-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qt6-pdfwidgets-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qt6-webengine-examples, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libqt6webenginecore6, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libqt6webenginequick6, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qt6-webenginequick-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libqt6pdfquick6, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qt6-pdf-imports, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qt6-pdfquick-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libqt6pdf6, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qt6-pdfwidgets-private-devel

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: 1/23/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-40896