A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in GNU libopts up to 27.6. Affected is the function __strstr_sse2. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. This issue was initially reported to the tcpreplay project, but the code maintainer explains, that this "bug appears to be in libopts which is an external library." This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-006166 advisory.

    A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in GNU libopts up to 27.6. Affected is the     function __strstr_sse2. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. Local access is required to approach     this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. This issue was initially     reported to the tcpreplay project, but the code maintainer explains, that this bug appears to be in     libopts which is an external library. This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer     supported by the maintainer.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Unity Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2026:20270-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2025-8746: Fixed improper input validation and memory bounds checking       when processing certain malformed configuration files (bsc#1247921)

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.

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2025-20119-1 advisory.

    - update to 4.5.2:
      * features added since 4.4.4
        - fix/recalculate header checksum for ipv6-frag
        - IPv6 frag checksum support
        - AF_XDP socket support
        - tcpreplay -w (write into a pcap file)
        - tcpreplay --fixhdrlen
        - --include and --exclude options
        - SLL2 support
        - Haiku support
      * security fixes reported for 4.4.4 fixed in 4.5.2
        - CVE-2023-4256  / bsc#1218249
        - CVE-2023-43279 / bsc#1221324
        - CVE-2024-3024  / bsc#1222131 (likely)
        - CVE-2024-22654 / bsc#1243845
        - CVE-2025-9157  / bsc#1248322
        - CVE-2025-9384  / bsc#1248595
        - CVE-2025-9385  / bsc#1248596
        - CVE-2025-9386  / bsc#1248597
        - CVE-2025-9649  / bsc#1248964
        - CVE-2025-51006 / bsc#1250356

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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in GNU libopts up to 27.6. Affected is the     function __strstr_sse2. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. Local access is required to approach     this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. This issue was initially     reported to the tcpreplay project, but the code maintainer explains, that this bug appears to be in     libopts which is an external library. This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer     supported by the maintainer. (CVE-2025-8746)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
302285	Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: autogen (UTSA-2026-006166)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	medium
300528	openSUSE 16 Security Update : autogen (openSUSE-SU-2026:20270-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
277019	openSUSE 16 Security Update : tcpreplay (openSUSE-SU-2025-20119-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
259898	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-8746	Nessus	Misc.	medium

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