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SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : erlang26 (SUSE-SU-2025:1356-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 234724

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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-2025:1356-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-30211: Fixed KEX init error results with excessive memory usage (bsc#1240390)
 - CVE-2025-32433: Fixed unauthenticated remote code execution in Erlang/OTP SSH (bsc#1241300)

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1240390

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1241300

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-April/039074.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-30211

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-32433

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 234724

File Name: suse_SU-2025-1356-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2025

Updated: 4/23/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 10.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-32433

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:erlang26-epmd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:erlang26

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: 4/22/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/28/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-30211, CVE-2025-32433

IAVA: 2025-A-0286

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:1356-1