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openSUSE 16 Security Update : autogen (openSUSE-SU-2026:20270-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 300528

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2026:20270-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-8746: Fixed improper input validation and memory bounds checking when processing certain malformed configuration files (bsc#1247921)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected autogen, autoopts and / or libopts25 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1247921

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8746

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 300528

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20270-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2026

Updated: 3/4/2026

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: Low

Base Score: 1.7

Temporal Score: 1.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-8746

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:autogen, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:autoopts, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libopts25

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: 2/26/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-8746