SUSE SLES12 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2026:0680-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 300559

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:0680-1 advisory.

- CVE-2026-0915: resolv: Fix NSS DNS backend for getnetbyaddr (bsc#1256822, BZ #33802)
- CVE-2025-15281: posix: Reset wordexp_t fields with WRDE_REUSE (bsc#1257005, BZ #33814)
- CVE-2025-8058: posix: Fix double-free after allocation failure in regcomp (bsc#1246965, BZ #33185)

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/1246965

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1256822

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1257005

http://www.nessus.org/u?e76507af

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

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8058

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 300559

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0680-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2026

Updated: 3/4/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, 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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-8058

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nscd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-devel-static, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-html, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-profile-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-locale-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-i18ndata, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-profile, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-info, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-locale, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc

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: 2/27/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-15281, CVE-2025-8058, CVE-2026-0915

IAVA: 2025-A-0549-S, 2026-A-0102

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0680-1