SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : libxslt (SUSE-SU-2025:1003-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 233349

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:1003-1 advisory.

- CVE-2023-40403: Fixed sensitive information disclosure during processing web content (bsc#1238591)
- CVE-2024-55549: Fixed use-after-free in xsltGetInheritedNsList (bsc#1239637)
- CVE-2025-24855: Fixed use-after-free in numbers.c (bsc#1239625)

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 libxslt-devel, libxslt-python, libxslt-tools and / or libxslt1 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 233349

File Name: suse_SU-2025-1003-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/26/2025

Updated: 3/26/2025

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: 7.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-40403

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/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:libxslt-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxslt-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxslt1

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: 3/25/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/26/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-40403, CVE-2024-55549, CVE-2025-24855

IAVA: 2025-A-0187

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:1003-1

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