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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : openvpn (SUSE-SU-2025:0278-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 214756

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0278-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-5594: Fixed wrong handling of null bytes and invalid characters in control messages (bsc#1235147)

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/1235147

http://www.nessus.org/u?a94e7f21

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5594

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 214756

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0278-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/29/2025

Updated: 1/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-5594

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:H/I:H/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn-dco, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn-auth-pam-plugin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn-dco-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn, 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: 1/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/20/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-5594

IAVA: 2024-A-0608

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0278-1