SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : rsync (SUSE-SU-2025:0404-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 216172

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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 a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0404-1 advisory.

- Bump rsync protocol version to 32 to show server is patched against recent vulnerabilities.

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 rsync package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1233760

http://www.nessus.org/u?cc73ea75

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 216172

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0404-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/12/2025

Updated: 2/12/2025

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rsync, 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: 2/10/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/10/2025

Reference Information

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0404-1