SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : python312 (SUSE-SU-2025:0521-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 216390

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0521-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-0938: Functions `urllib.parse.urlsplit` and `urlparse` accept domain names including square brackets (bsc#1236705).
- CVE-2024-12254: Unbounded memory buffering in SelectorSocketTransport.writelines() (bsc#1234290).

Other bugfixes:

- Position of SUSE Python interpreters on Externally managed environments (bsc#1228165).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 216390

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0521-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/17/2025

Updated: 2/19/2025

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-0938

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-12254

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-12254

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python312-dbm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python312-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python312-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python312-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python312-idle, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python312-tk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython3_12-1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python312, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python312-curses

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: 2/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/4/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-12254, CVE-2025-0938

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0521-1

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