openSUSE 16 Security Update : exiv2 (openSUSE-SU-2026:20410-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 304230

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-2026:20410-1 advisory.

Update to exiv2 0.28.8:

- CVE-2024-24826: out-of-bounds read in QuickTimeVideo: NikonTagsDecoder (bsc#1219870).
- CVE-2024-25112: denial of service due to unbounded recursion in QuickTimeVideo: multipleEntriesDecoder (bsc#1219871).
- CVE-2024-39695: out-of-bounds read in AsfVideo: streamProperties (bsc#1227528).
- CVE-2025-26623: heap buffer overflow via writing metadata into a crafted image file (bsc#1237347).
- CVE-2025-54080: out-of-bounds read in `Exiv2: EpsImage: writeMetadata()` when writing metadata into a crafted image file (bsc#1248962).
- CVE-2025-55304: quadratic performance algorithm in the ICC profile parsing code of `JpegBase:
readMetadata` (bsc#1248963).
- CVE-2026-25884: out-of-bounds read in `CrwMap: decode0x0805` (bsc#1259083).
- CVE-2026-27596: integer overflow in `LoaderNative: getData()` leads to out-of-bounds read (bsc#1259084).
- CVE-2026-27631: crash due to uncaught exception when trying to create `std: vector` larger than `max_size()` (bsc#1259085).

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 304230

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20410-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/29/2026

Updated: 3/29/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, 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-2025-26623

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 5.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-27631

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libexiv2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libexiv2-28-x86-64-v3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:exiv2-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:exiv2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libexiv2-28

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: 3/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-24826, CVE-2024-25112, CVE-2024-39695, CVE-2025-26623, CVE-2025-54080, CVE-2025-55304, CVE-2026-25884, CVE-2026-27596, CVE-2026-27631

IAVA: 2024-A-0397-S, 2025-A-0302-S, 2025-A-0638-S, 2026-A-0190

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