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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : orc (SUSE-SU-2025:0314-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 214903
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-2025:0314-1 advisory.- CVE-2024-40897: Fixed stack-based buffer overflow in the Orc compiler when formatting error messages for certain input files (bsc#1228184)
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 liborc-0_4-0 and / or liborc-0_4-0-32bit packages.See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1228184
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 214903
File Name: suse_SU-2025-0314-1.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 2/3/2025
Updated: 2/3/2025
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6
Temporal Score: 4.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-40897
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.7
Temporal Score: 5.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liborc-0_4-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liborc-0_4-0-32bit
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: 1/31/2025
Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2024
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2024-40897
SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0314-1