SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : zvbi (SUSE-SU-2025:0979-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 233205

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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-2025:0979-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-2173: Fixed check on src_length to avoid an unitinialized heap read (bsc#1239222).
- CVE-2025-2174: Fixed integer overflow leading to heap overflow in src/conv.c, src/io-sim.c, src/search.c (bsc#1239299).
- CVE-2025-2175: Fixed integer overflow in _vbi_strndup_iconv (bsc#1239312).
- CVE-2025-2176: Fixed integer overflow in function vbi_capture_sim_load_caption in src/io-sim.c (bsc#1239319).
- CVE-2025-2177: Fixed integer overflow in function vbi_search_new in src/search.c (bsc#1239320).

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: Medium

ID: 233205

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0979-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/22/2025

Updated: 3/22/2025

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: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-2177

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 2.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:zvbi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libzvbi0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libzvbi-chains0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:zvbi-devel, 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: 3/21/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-2173, CVE-2025-2174, CVE-2025-2175, CVE-2025-2176, CVE-2025-2177

IAVA: 2025-A-0190

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0979-1

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