SUSE SLES12 Security Update : freetype2 (SUSE-SU-2025:0960-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 233030

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-2025:0960-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-27363: Fixed out-of-bounds write when attempting to parse font subglyph structures related to TrueType GX and variable font files (bsc#1239465).

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 freetype2-devel, ft2demos, libfreetype6 and / or libfreetype6-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1239465

http://www.nessus.org/u?fea4bd76

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-27363

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 233030

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0960-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/20/2025

Updated: 3/20/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-27363

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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:libfreetype6-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freetype2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libfreetype6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ft2demos

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: 3/19/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-27363

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0960-1