openSUSE 16 Security Update : libsoup (openSUSE-SU-2026:20186-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 298722

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-2026:20186-1 advisory.

- CVE-2026-1536: HTTP header injection or response splitting via CRLF injection in the Content-Disposition header (bsc#1257440).
- CVE-2026-1761: incorrect length calculation when parsing of multipart HTTP responses can lead to a stack-based buffer overflow (bsc#1257598).

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 libsoup-3_0-0, libsoup-devel, libsoup-lang and / or typelib-1_0-Soup-3_0 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1257440

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1257598

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-1536

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-1761

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 298722

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20186-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/12/2026

Updated: 2/12/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-1536

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-1761

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoup-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoup-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:typelib-1_0-soup-3_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoup-3_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: 2/6/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/28/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-1536, CVE-2026-1761