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openSUSE 16 Security Update : avahi (openSUSE-SU-2026:20110-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 296995
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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-2026:20110-1 advisory.- CVE-2025-68276: Fixed refuse to create wide-area record browsers when wide-area is off (bsc#1256498)
- CVE-2025-68471: Fixed DoS bug by changing assert to return (bsc#1256500)
- CVE-2025-68468: Fixed DoS bug by removing incorrect assertion (bsc#1256499)
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 packages.See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1256498
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1256499
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1256500
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-68276
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 296995
File Name: openSUSE-2026-20110-1.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 1/28/2026
Updated: 1/28/2026
Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 6.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-68471
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.5
Temporal Score: 5.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-utils-gtk, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-glib1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-gobject-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libdns_sd, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-compat-howl-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-common3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-utils, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-core7, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-avahi-gtk, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libhowl0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:typelib-1_0-avahi-0_6, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-gobject0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-qt6-1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-libevent1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-autoipd, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:avahi-compat-mdnsresponder-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-qt6-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-client3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python313-avahi, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libavahi-ui-gtk3-0
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: 1/26/2026
Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2026