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SUSE: perl-Authen-SASL Intermediate Vulnerable Client Nonce CVE-2025-40919

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Calendar Grey September 5, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE addresses moderate security vulnerabilities in perl-Authen-SASL and perl-Crypt-URandom. New update available.
* bsc#1246623 * jsc#PED-13306 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-40918

Summary

## This update for perl-Authen-SASL, perl-Crypt-URandom fixes the following issues: Changes in perl-Authen-SASL: * CVE-2025-40918: Fixed insecurely generated client nonce (bsc#1246623) Changes in perl-Crypt-URandom: * Included 0.540.0 for use by perl-Authen-SASL in SLE-15 (jsc#PED-13306 / bsc#1246623). ## Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: * openSUSE Leap 15.6 zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-3087=1 * Development Tools Module 15-SP6 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-SP6-2025-3087=1 * Development Tools Module 15-SP7 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-SP7-2025-3087=1

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate SuSE perl-Crypt-URandom perl-authen-sasl client nonce

References

* bsc#1246623

* jsc#PED-13306

Cross-

* CVE-2025-40918

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-40918 ( SUSE ): 8.2

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

* CVE-2025-40918 ( SUSE ): 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

* CVE-2025-40918 ( NVD ): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected Products:

* Development Tools Module 15-SP6

* Development Tools Module 15-SP7

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

* SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:03087-1
Release Date: 2025-09-05T10:34:04Z
Rating: moderate

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate SuSE perl-Crypt-URandom perl-authen-sasl client nonce

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