openSUSE 16 Security Update : gnutls (openSUSE-SU-2026:20446-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 304862

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-2026:20446-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-14831: Fixed DoS via excessive resource consumption during certificate verification.
(bsc#1257960)
- CVE-2025-9820: Fixed a buffer overflow in gnutls_pkcs11_token_init. (bsc#1254132)
- Add the functionality to allow to specify the hash algorithm for the PSK. This fixes a bug in the current implementation where the binder is always calculated with SHA256. (bsc#1258083, jsc#PED-15752, jsc#PED-15753)

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: 304862

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20446-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/4/2026

Updated: 4/4/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-14831

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutls30, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutlsxx-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgnutlsxx30

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: 3/30/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/21/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-14831, CVE-2025-9820

IAVA: 2025-A-0879-S, 2026-A-0147

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