A maliciously crafted TIFF file can cause image decoding to attempt to allocate up 4GiB of memory, causing either excessive resource consumption or an out-of-memory error.

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:20963-1 advisory.

    Changes in neonmodem:

    - Update golang.org/x/net dependency to v0.55.0 due to bsc#1267193

    - Update golang.org/x/image dependency to v0.38.0 due to bsc#1260727
    - Update golang.org/x/term dependency to v0.42.0 due to bsc#1260727

    - Update to version 1.0.7+git0.346d1d3:
      * Update dependencies, remove debug output
      * Update GitHub actions
      * discourse: APi fixes
      * Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.36.0 to 0.38.0
      * Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.34.0 to 0.36.0
      * Update dependencies
      * Change chat button

    - Add build option for position-independent executables

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.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - A maliciously crafted TIFF file can cause image decoding to attempt to allocate up 4GiB of memory, causing
    either excessive resource consumption or an out-of-memory error. (CVE-2026-33809)

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

  - A maliciously crafted TIFF file can cause image decoding to attempt to allocate up 4GiB of memory, causing     either excessive resource consumption or an out-of-memory error. (CVE-2026-33809)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
321476	openSUSE 16 Security Update : neonmodem (openSUSE-SU-2026:20963-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
439481	SCA: security update for golang.org/x/image (GHSA-44p7-9xx4-hf2g)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
439481	SCA: security update for golang.org/x/image (GHSA-44p7-9xx4-hf2g)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
303764	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-33809	Nessus	Misc.	medium

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