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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : java-1_8_0-ibm (SUSE-SU-2025:0675-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 216738

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0675-1 advisory.

 Update to Java 8.0 Service Refresh 8 Fix Pack 40 (bsc#1236470):

 - CVE-2025-21502: unauthenticated attacker can obtain unauthorized read and write access to data through the Hotspot component API (bsc#1236278).

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 java-1_8_0-ibm, java-1_8_0-ibm-alsa, java-1_8_0-ibm-devel and / or java-1_8_0-ibm-plugin packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1233296

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1236278

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1236470

http://www.nessus.org/u?21d9cee4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-10917

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-21502

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 216738

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0675-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

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: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-10917

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:L/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-ibm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-ibm-alsa, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-ibm-plugin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-ibm-devel

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: 2/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-10917, CVE-2025-21502

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0675-1