SUSE SLES16 : Feature update for libgcrypt, libgpg-error (SUSE-SU-SUSE-FU-2026:21213-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 309116

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES16 / SLES_SAP16 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-SUSE-FU-2026:21213-1 advisory.

Update libgcrypt to 1.12.1 (jsc#PED-15059):

* New and extended interfaces:
- Allow access to the FIPS service indicator via the new GCRYCTL_FIPS_SERVICE_INDICATOR control code.
- Make SHA-1 non-FIPS internally for the 1.12 API
- Add Dilithium (ML-DSA) support
- Support optional random-override and support byte string data

* Bug fixes:
- Use secure MPI in _gcry_mpi_assign_limb_space.
- Use CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA instead of /etc on Windows.
- Apply a Kyber patch from upstream.
- Fix an edge case in Jent initialization.
- mceliece6688128f: Fix stack overflow crash on win64/wine
* Performance:
- Many performance improvements, new AVX512 implementations for modern CPUs.
- Add RISC-V Zbb+Zbc implementation of CRC.
- Add RISC-V vector cryptography implementation of GHASH, AES, SHA256 and SHA512
- Add AVX2 and AVX512 code paths to improve CRC.

For a full changelog, see:
https://dev.gnupg.org/source/libgcrypt/history/master/;libgcrypt-1.12.0

Update libgpg-error to 1.58:

* New src/gpg-error.c (main): New command fconcat.
* Rename src/spawn-posix.c (struct gpgrt_spawn_actions): Rename the field to ENVP.
* argparse: Use SYSCONFDIR for /etc.
* Update translations for Portugese, German
* src/estream.c (parse_mode): Fix parsing of share. Set sysopen flag.
* syscfg: Add 64-bit Android arch.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 309116

File Name: suse_SU-FU-2026-21213-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/22/2026

Updated: 4/22/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-2236

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgcrypt20, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgpg-error0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgcrypt-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:16, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgcrypt-devel-x86-64-v3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgcrypt20-x86-64-v3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgpg-error-devel

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: 4/17/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-2236

SuSE: SUSE-FU-2026:21213-1

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