SUSE SLES15 Security Update : grub2 (SUSE-SU-2025:0588-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 216508

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0588-1 advisory.

- CVE-2024-45781: Fixed strcpy overflow in ufs. (bsc#1233617)
- CVE-2024-56737: Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow in hfs. (bsc#1234958)
- CVE-2024-45782: Fixed strcpy overflow in hfs. (bsc#1233615)
- CVE-2024-45780: Fixed an overflow in tar/cpio. (bsc#1233614)
- CVE-2024-45783: Fixed a refcount overflow in hfsplus. (bsc#1233616)
- CVE-2024-45774: Fixed a heap overflow in JPEG parser. (bsc#1233609)
- CVE-2024-45775: Fixed a missing NULL check in extcmd parser. (bsc#1233610)
- CVE-2024-45776: Fixed an overflow in .MO file handling. (bsc#1233612)
- CVE-2024-45777: Fixed an integer overflow in gettext. (bsc#1233613)
- CVE-2024-45778: Fixed bfs filesystem by removing it from lockdown capable modules. (bsc#1233606)
- CVE-2024-45779: Fixed a heap overflow in bfs. (bsc#1233608)
- CVE-2025-0624: Fixed an out-of-bounds write during the network boot process. (bsc#1236316)
- CVE-2025-0622: Fixed a use-after-free when handling hooks during module unload in command/gpg .
(bsc#1236317)
- CVE-2025-0690: Fixed an integer overflow that may lead to an out-of-bounds write through the read command.
(bsc#1237012)
- CVE-2025-1118: Fixed an issue where the dump command was not being blocked when grub was in lockdown mode.
(bsc#1237013)
- CVE-2025-0677: Fixed an integer overflow that may lead to an out-of-bounds write when handling symlinks in ufs.
(bsc#1237002)
- CVE-2025-0684: Fixed an integer overflow that may lead to an out-of-bounds write when handling symlinks in reiserfs.
(bsc#1237008)
- CVE-2025-0685: Fixed an integer overflow that may lead to an out-of-bounds write when handling symlinks in jfs.
(bsc#1237009)
- CVE-2025-0686: Fixed an integer overflow that may lead to an out-of-bounds write when handling symlinks in romfs.
(bsc#1237010)
- CVE-2025-0689: Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow in udf that may lead to arbitrary code execution.
(bsc#1237011)
- CVE-2025-1125: Fixed an integer overflow that may lead to an out-of-bounds write in hfs. (bsc#1237014)
- CVE-2025-0678: Fixed an integer overflow that may lead to an out-of-bounds write in squash4.
(bsc#1237006)

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: 216508

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0588-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/20/2025

Updated: 2/20/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-45781

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 6.6

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-0624

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2-arm64-efi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2-x86_64-xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2-s390x-emu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2-snapper-plugin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2-systemd-sleep-plugin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2-x86_64-efi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2-i386-pc, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2-powerpc-ieee1275

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: 2/19/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-45774, CVE-2024-45775, CVE-2024-45776, CVE-2024-45777, CVE-2024-45778, CVE-2024-45779, CVE-2024-45780, CVE-2024-45781, CVE-2024-45782, CVE-2024-45783, CVE-2024-56737, CVE-2025-0622, CVE-2025-0624, CVE-2025-0677, CVE-2025-0678, CVE-2025-0684, CVE-2025-0685, CVE-2025-0686, CVE-2025-0689, CVE-2025-0690, CVE-2025-1118, CVE-2025-1125

IAVA: 2024-A-0207

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0588-1

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