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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : libsoup2 (SUSE-SU-2026:0497-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 299060

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:0497-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2026-1761: Check length of bytes read in soup_filter_input_stream_read_until to avoid a stack-based buffer overflow (bsc#1257598).
 - CVE-2026-0716: improper bounds handling may allow out-of-bounds read (bsc#1256418).
 - CVE-2025-4476: null pointer dereference may lead to denial of service (bsc#1243422).

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-2_4-1, libsoup2-devel, libsoup2-lang and / or typelib-1_0-Soup-2_4 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1243422

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1256418

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1257598

http://www.nessus.org/u?b51b78ba

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4476

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-0716

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 299060

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0497-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/14/2026

Updated: 2/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-0716

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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-2025-4476

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-soup-2_4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoup2-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoup2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoup-2_4-1, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 2/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/16/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-4476, CVE-2026-0716, CVE-2026-1761

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0497-1