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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : libtasn1 (SUSE-SU-2025:0548-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 216391

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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 packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0548-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-12133: the processing of input DER data containing a large number of SEQUENCE OF or SET OF elements takes quadratic time to complete. (bsc#1236878)

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1236878

http://www.nessus.org/u?9f519691

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12133

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 216391

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0548-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

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: Low

Score: 2.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-12133

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtasn1-6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtasn1-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtasn1-6-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtasn1, 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: 2/14/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-12133

IAVA: 2025-A-0096

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0548-1