SUSE SLES15 Security Update : openssl-1_1 (SUSE-SU-2026:0360-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 297610

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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-2026:0360-1 advisory.

- CVE-2026-22795: Missing ASN1_TYPE validation in PKCS#12 parsing (bsc#1256839).
- CVE-2025-69420: Missing ASN1_TYPE validation in TS_RESP_verify_response() function (bsc#1256837).
- CVE-2025-69421: NULL Pointer Dereference in PKCS12_item_decrypt_d2i_ex function (bsc#1256838).
- CVE-2026-22796: ASN1_TYPE Type Confusion in the PKCS7_digest_from_attributes() function (bsc#1256840).
- CVE-2025-68160: Heap out-of-bounds write in BIO_f_linebuffer on short writes (bsc#1256834).
- CVE-2025-69418: Unauthenticated/unencrypted trailing bytes with low-level OCB function calls (bsc#1256835).
- CVE-2025-69419: Out of bounds write in PKCS12_get_friendlyname() UTF-8 conversion (bsc#1256836).

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 297610

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0360-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/3/2026

Updated: 2/3/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-69421

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl-1_1-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_1-hmac, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl-1_1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl-1_1-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_1-hmac-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_1-32bit, 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: 2/2/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/27/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-68160, CVE-2025-69418, CVE-2025-69419, CVE-2025-69420, CVE-2025-69421, CVE-2026-22795, CVE-2026-22796

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0360-1

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