SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openssh8.4 (SUSE-SU-2025:0744-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 216960

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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-2025:0744-1 advisory.

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

Other bugfixes:

- Fix usage of local accelerator cards via openssl-ibmca (bsc#1216474, bsc#1218871).
- Add patches from upstream to change the default value of UpdateHostKeys to Yes (unless VerifyHostKeyDNS is enabled) (bsc#1222831).
- Fix hostbased ssh login failing occasionally with 'signature unverified: incorrect signature' by fixing a typo in patch (bsc#1221123).
- For now we don't ship the ssh-keycat command, but we need the patch for the other SELinux infrastructure (bsc#1214788).
- Attempts to mitigate instances of secrets lingering in memory after a session exits (bsc#1213004, bsc#1213008, bsc#1186673).

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 216960

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0744-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/1/2025

Updated: 3/1/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.5

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: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssh8.4-clients, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssh8.4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssh8.4-fips, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssh8.4-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssh8.4-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssh8.4-helpers

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: 2/28/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-26465

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0744-1

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