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openSUSE 16 Security Update : expat (openSUSE-SU-2026:20306-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 301308

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-2026:20306-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2026-24515: failure to copy the encoding handler data passed to XML_SetUnknownEncodingHandler may cause a NULL dereference (bsc#1257144).
 - CVE-2026-25210: lack of buffer size check can lead to an integer overflow (bsc#1257496).

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 expat, libexpat-devel and / or libexpat1 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1257144

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1257496

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-24515

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-25210

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 301308

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20306-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/6/2026

Updated: 3/6/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1

Temporal Score: 0.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-24515

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.5

Temporal Score: 2.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libexpat-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libexpat1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:expat

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: 3/3/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/23/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-24515, CVE-2026-25210

IAVA: 2026-A-0100