openSUSE 16 Security Update : glibc (openSUSE-SU-2026:20133-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 297781

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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-2026:20133-1 advisory.

Security fixes:

- CVE-2025-0395: Fixed buffer overflow in the assert() function (bsc#1236282).
- CVE-2026-0861: Fixed inadequate size check in the memalign suite may result in an integer overflow (bsc#1256766).
- CVE-2026-0915: Fixed uninitialized stack buffer used as DNS query name when net==0 in
_nss_dns_getnetbyaddr_r (bsc#1256822).
- CVE-2025-15281: Fixed uninitialized memory may cause the process abort (bsc#1257005).

Other fixes:

- NPTL: Optimize trylock for high cache contention workloads (bsc#1256436)

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: 297781

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20133-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-0915

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.4

Temporal Score: 7.6

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-0861

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-locale, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-riscv64-glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-aarch64-glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-ppc64le-glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-info, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-i18ndata, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-profile, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-html, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-locale-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-s390x-glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-gconv-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glibc-devel-static

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: 1/29/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-0395, CVE-2025-15281, CVE-2026-0861, CVE-2026-0915

IAVA: 2025-A-0062-S

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