openSUSE 16 Security Update : cJSON (openSUSE-SU-2026:20340-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 302091

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-2026:20340-1 advisory.

- Update to version 1.7.19
* Check for NULL in cJSON_DetachItemViaPointer.
* Check overlap before calling strcpy in cJSON_SetValuestring.
* Fix Max recursion depth for cJSON_Duplicate to prevent stack exhaustion.
* Allocate memory for the temporary buffer when paring numbers.
This fixes CVE-2023-26819. (bsc#1241502)
* Fix the incorrect check in decode_array_index_from_pointer.
This fixes CVE-2025-57052. (bsc#1249112)
- Remove not longer needed patch for NULL to deallocated pointers.

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 cJSON-devel and / or libcjson1 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 302091

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20340-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/13/2026

Updated: 3/13/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-57052

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cjson-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcjson1

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: 3/11/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/19/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-26819, CVE-2025-57052

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