SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : xorg-x11-server (SUSE-SU-2025:0730-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 216902

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-2025:0730-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-26594: Use-after-free of the root cursor (bsc#1237427).
- CVE-2025-26595: Buffer overflow in XkbVModMaskText() (bsc#1237429).
- CVE-2025-26596: Heap overflow in XkbWriteKeySyms() (bsc#1237430).
- CVE-2025-26597: Buffer overflow in XkbChangeTypesOfKey() (bsc#1237431).
- CVE-2025-26598: Out-of-bounds write in CreatePointerBarrierClient() (bsc#1237432).
- CVE-2025-26599: Use of uninitialized pointer in compRedirectWindow() (bsc#1237433).
- CVE-2025-26600: Use-after-free in PlayReleasedEvents() (bsc#1237434).
- CVE-2025-26601: Use-after-free in SyncInitTrigger() (bsc#1237435).

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: 216902

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0730-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/27/2025

Updated: 2/27/2025

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-26601

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xorg-x11-server-xvfb, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xorg-x11-server-sdk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xorg-x11-server-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xorg-x11-server, 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: 2/26/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/25/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-26594, CVE-2025-26595, CVE-2025-26596, CVE-2025-26597, CVE-2025-26598, CVE-2025-26599, CVE-2025-26600, CVE-2025-26601

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0730-1

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