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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : java-11-openjdk (SUSE-SU-2025:0235-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 214779

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:0235-1 advisory.

 Upgrade to upstream tag jdk-11.0.26+4 (January 2025 CPU)

 Security fixes:

 - CVE-2025-21502: Enhance array handling (JDK-8330045, bsc#1236278)


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 java-11-openjdk, java-11-openjdk-demo, java-11-openjdk-devel and / or java-11-openjdk-headless packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1236278

http://www.nessus.org/u?c4fda504

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-21502

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 214779

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0235-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

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: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-21502

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-11-openjdk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-11-openjdk-headless, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-11-openjdk-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-11-openjdk-demo

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: 1/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/21/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-21502

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0235-1