openSUSE 16 Security Update : glib2 (openSUSE-SU-2026:20150-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 297785

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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-2026:20150-1 advisory.

- CVE-2026-1485: Fixed buffer underflow and out-of-bounds access due to integer wraparound in content type parsing (bsc#1257354).
- CVE-2026-1484: Fixed buffer underflow and out-of-bounds access due to miscalculated buffer boundaries in the Base64 encoding routine (bsc#1257355).
- CVE-2026-1489: Fixed undersized heap allocation followed by out-of-bounds access due to integer overflow in Unicode case conversion (bsc#1257353).
- CVE-2026-0988: Fixed a potential integer overflow in g_buffered_input_stream_peek (bsc#1257049).

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/1257049

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1257353

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1257354

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1257355

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-0988

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-1484

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-1485

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-1489

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 297785

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20150-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/4/2026

Updated: 2/4/2026

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-1489

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.8

Temporal Score: 2.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-1485

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libglib-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glib2-devel-static, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:typelib-1_0-glibunix-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgirepository-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgmodule-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glib2-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gio-branding-upstream, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:typelib-1_0-girepository-3_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:typelib-1_0-gmodule-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glib2-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgio-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glib2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:typelib-1_0-gobject-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgobject-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:typelib-1_0-gio-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glib2-tests-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:typelib-1_0-glib-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgthread-2_0-0

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: 1/17/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-0988, CVE-2026-1484, CVE-2026-1485, CVE-2026-1489