openSUSE 16 : Security update of valkey (openSUSE-SU-2026:20003-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 282628

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:20003-1 advisory.

Update to 8.0.6:

- Security fixes:

- CVE-2025-49844: Fixed that a Lua script may lead to remote code execution (bsc#1250995)
- CVE-2025-46817: Fixed that a Lua script may lead to integer overflow and potential RCE (bsc#1250995)
- CVE-2025-46818: Fixed that a Lua script can be executed in the context of another user (bsc#1250995)
- CVE-2025-46819: Fixed LUA out-of-bound read (bsc#1250995)

- Bug fixes:

* Fix accounting for dual channel RDB bytes in replication stats (#2614)
* Fix EVAL to report unknown error when empty error table is provided (#2229)
* Fix use-after-free when active expiration triggers hashtable to shrink (#2257)
* Fix MEMORY USAGE to account for embedded keys (#2290)
* Fix memory leak when shrinking a hashtable without entries (#2288)
* Prevent potential assertion in active defrag handling large allocations (#2353)
* Prevent bad memory access when NOTOUCH client gets unblocked (#2347)
* Converge divergent shard-id persisted in nodes.conf to primary's shard id (#2174)
* Fix client tracking memory overhead calculation (#2360)
* Fix RDB load per slot memory pre-allocation when loading from RDB snapshot (#2466)
* Don't use AVX2 instructions if the CPU doesn't support it (#2571)
* Fix bug where active defrag may be unable to defrag sparsely filled pages (#2656)

Changes from 8.0.5:

https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/releases/tag/8.0.5

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 valkey, valkey-compat-redis and / or valkey-devel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 282628

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20003-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/13/2026

Updated: 1/13/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 10.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-49844

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.9

Temporal Score: 8.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:valkey, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:valkey-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:valkey-compat-redis, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0

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: 1/7/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/3/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-46817, CVE-2025-46818, CVE-2025-46819, CVE-2025-49844

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