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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : libsoup2 (SUSE-SU-2026:0258-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 296474

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:0258-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-14523: Reject duplicated Host in headers and followed upstream update (bsc#1254876).
 - CVE-2026-0719: Fixed overflow for password md4sum (bsc#1256399)

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 libsoup-2_4-1, libsoup2-devel, libsoup2-lang and / or typelib-1_0-Soup-2_4 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1254876

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1256399

http://www.nessus.org/u?f9f117a6

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14523

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-0719

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 296474

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0258-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2026

Updated: 1/24/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-0719

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-14523

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-soup-2_4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoup2-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoup2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoup-2_4-1, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-14523, CVE-2026-0719

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0258-1