SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : crypto-policies, krb5 (SUSE-SU-2025:0401-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 216182

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-2025:0401-1 advisory.

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2025-24528: Fixed out-of-bounds write caused by overflow when calculating ulog block size can lead to process crash (bsc#1236619).

Feature addition:

- Add crypto-policies support; (jsc#PED-12018)

* The default krb5.conf has been updated to include config snippets in the krb5.conf.d directory, where crypto-policies drops its.

- Allow to use KRB5KDF in FIPS mode; (jsc#PED-12018);

* This key derivation function is used by AES256-CTS-HMAC-SHA1-96 and AES128-CTS-HMAC-SHA1-96 encryption types, used by Active directory. If these encryption types are allowed or not in FIPS mode is enforced now by the FIPS:AD-SUPPORT subpolicy.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 216182

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0401-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-24528

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-plugin-kdb-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:crypto-policies-scripts, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-plugin-preauth-pkinit, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-plugin-preauth-otp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:crypto-policies, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-client

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

CVE: CVE-2025-24528

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0401-1

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