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openSUSE 16 Security Update : alloy (openSUSE-SU-2026:20140-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 297777

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:20140-1 advisory.

 Update to 1.12.2:

 Security fixes:

 - CVE-2025-68156: github.com/expr-lang/expr/builtin: Fixed potential DoS via unbounded recursion (bsc#1255333):
 - CVE-2025-31133, CVE-2025-52565, CVE-2025-52881: github.com/opencontainers/runc: Fixed container breakouts by bypassing runc's restrictions for writing to arbitrary /proc files (bsc#1255074)

 Other fixes:

 - Add missing configuration parameter deployment_name_from_replicaset to k8sattributes processor (5b90a9d) (@dehaansa)
 - database_observability: Fix schema_details collector to fetch column definitions with case sensitive table names (#4872) (560dff4) (@jharvey10, @fridgepoet)
 - deps: Update jose2go to 1.7.0 (#4858) (dfdd341) (@jharvey10)
 - deps: Update npm dependencies [backport] (#5201) (8e06c26) (@jharvey10)
 - Ensure the squid exporter wrapper properly brackets ipv6 addresses [backport] (#5205) (e329cc6) (@dehaansa)
 - Preserve meta labels in loki.source.podlogs (#5097) (ab4b21e) (@kalleep)
 - Prevent panic in import.git when update fails [backport] (#5204) (c82fbae) (@dehaansa, @jharvey10)
 - show correct fallback alloy version instead of v1.13.0 (#5110) (b72be99) (@dehaansa, @jharvey10)

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 alloy package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1255074

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1255333

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-31133

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-52565

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-52881

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-68156

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 297777

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20140-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/4/2026

Updated: 2/4/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-52881

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-31133

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.4

Threat Score: 7.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-52565

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:alloy

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: 1/30/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/5/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-31133, CVE-2025-52565, CVE-2025-52881, CVE-2025-68156