SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openssh (SUSE-SU-2025:0659-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 216732

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:0659-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-26465: Fixed a MitM attack against OpenSSH's VerifyHostKeyDNS-enabled client (bsc#1237040).

- Add a s390 specific ioctl for ECC hardware support (bsc#1225637):
- for migration to openssh 8.4: write active/enabled switch over files only if not yet present (bsc#1220110)

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 openssh, openssh-askpass-gnome, openssh-fips and / or openssh-helpers packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 216732

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0659-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/25/2025

Updated: 2/25/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-26465

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssh-helpers, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssh, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssh-fips, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssh-askpass-gnome

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/23/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/18/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-26465

IAVA: 2025-A-0126

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0659-1

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