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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2026:0371-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 297974

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:0371-1 advisory.

 Security fixes:

 - 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#1256437).

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/1256437

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1256766

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1256822

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1257005

http://www.nessus.org/u?6c0a5f03

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-15281

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-0861

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-0915

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 297974

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0371-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/5/2026

Updated: 2/5/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

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:suse_linux:glibc-info, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-i18ndata, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-profile, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libnsl1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nscd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-extra, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-devel-static, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-locale-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-locale, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-locale-base-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libnsl1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc

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: 2/3/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/14/2026

Reference Information

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

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0371-1