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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : pcp (SUSE-SU-2025:0801-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 232320

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0801-1 advisory.

 - Version upgrade 6.2.0 (bsc#1217826, PED#8192, CVE-2023-6917).
 - Performance CoPilot 6 is not starting due to missing pmlogger_daily.timer (bsc#1222815).

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1217826

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1222815

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6917

http://www.nessus.org/u?94bcaf40

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 232320

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0801-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/10/2025

Updated: 3/10/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

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-2023-6917

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpcp-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpcp3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpcp_gui2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpcp_import1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpcp_mmv1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpcp_trace2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpcp_web1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pcp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pcp-conf, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pcp-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pcp-import-iostat2pcp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pcp-import-mrtg2pcp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pcp-import-sar2pcp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pcp-system-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-pcp-logimport, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-pcp-logsummary, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-pcp-mmv, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-pcp-pmda, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-pcp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pcp-pmda-perfevent, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pcp-doc

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: 3/6/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/28/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-6917

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0801-1