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openSUSE 16 Security Update : qemu (openSUSE-SU-2026:20567-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 309143

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-2026:20567-1 advisory.

 Update to version 10.0.9.

 Security issues fixed:

 - CVE-2026-3196: unbounded memory allocation and host denial-of-service via PCM_INFO requests sent from the guest (bsc#1259079).
 - CVE-2026-3195: heap out-of-bounds write when reading input audio in the virtio-snd device input callback (bsc#1259080).
 - CVE-2026-2243: heap out-of-bounds read and 12-byte information leak when processing specially crafted VMDK files with qemu-img (bsc#1258509).

 Other updates and bugfixes:

 - Version 10.0.9:
 * Full backport list: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu- devel/[email protected]/
 * hyperv/syndbg: check length returned by cpu_physical_memory_map()
 * fuse: Copy write buffer content before polling
 * target/loongarch: Avoid recursive PNX exception on CSR_BADI fetch
 * target/loongarch: Preserve PTE permission bits in LDPTE
 * hw/net/npcm_gmac: Catch accesses off the end of the register array
 * linux-user: fix TIOCGSID ioctl
 * tests/tcg/multiarch/test-mmap: Check mmaps beyond reserved_va
 * bsd-user: Deal with mmap where start > reserved_va
 * linux-user: Deal with mmap where start > reserved_va
 * hw/net/xilinx_ethlite: Check for oversized TX packets
 * virtio-gpu: Ensure BHs are invoked only from main-loop thread
 * block/nfs: Do not enter coroutine from CB
 * block: Never drop BLOCK_IO_ERROR with action=stop for rate limiting
 * block/throttle-groups: fix deadlock with iolimits and muliple iothreads
 * mirror: Fix missed dirty bitmap writes during startup
 * block/curl: fix concurrent completion handling
 * block/vmdk: fix OOB read in vmdk_read_extent()
 * hw/net/smc91c111: Don't allow negative-length packets
 * io: fix cleanup for websock I/O source data on cancellation
 * io: fix cleanup for TLS I/O source data on cancellation
 * io: separate freeing of tasks from marking them as complete
 * target/i386/hvf/x86_mmu: Fix compiler warning
 * hw/i386/vmmouse: Fix hypercall clobbers
 * tests/docker: upgrade most non-lcitool debian tests to debian 13
 * hw/9pfs: fix missing EOPNOTSUPP on Twstat and Trenameat for fs synth driver
 * hw/9pfs: fix data race in v9fs_mark_fids_unreclaim()

 - Add support for AMD-Turn CPUs (jsc#PED-13174)
 * target/i386: Add support for EPYC-Turin model (jsc#PED-13174)
 * target/i386: Update EPYC-Genoa for Cache property, perfmon-v2, RAS and SVM feature bits (jsc#PED-13174)
 * target/i386: Add couple of feature bits in CPUID_Fn80000021_EAX (jsc#PED-13174)
 * target/i386: Update EPYC-Milan CPU model for Cache property, RAS, SVM feature bits (jsc#PED-13174)
 * target/i386: Update EPYC-Rome CPU model for Cache property, RAS, SVM feature bits (jsc#PED-13174)
 * target/i386: Update EPYC CPU model for Cache property, RAS, SVM feature bits (jsc#PED-13174)

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1258509

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1259079

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1259080

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-2243

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-3195

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-3196

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 309143

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20567-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/22/2026

Updated: 4/22/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-3195

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-2243

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-block-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-seabios, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-ui-gtk, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-block-ssh, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-vgabios, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-hw-display-virtio-gpu-pci, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-hw-usb-host, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-ui-spice-app, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-accel-qtest, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-hw-usb-redirect, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-ui-spice-core, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-audio-spice, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-ppc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-x86, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-audio-pipewire, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-headless, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-audio-jack, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-hw-display-virtio-vga, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-s390x, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-audio-oss, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-chardev-spice, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-skiboot, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-img, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-audio-alsa, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-ivshmem-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-slof, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-block-dmg, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-block-nfs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-hw-usb-smartcard, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-chardev-baum, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-ui-curses, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-hw-s390x-virtio-gpu-ccw, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-ui-opengl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-ipxe, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-linux-user, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-arm, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-microvm, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-vhost-user-gpu, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-ksm, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-hw-display-virtio-gpu, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-hw-display-qxl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-pr-helper, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-ui-dbus, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-audio-pa, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-spice, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-vmsr-helper, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qemu-audio-dbus

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: 4/20/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-2243, CVE-2026-3195, CVE-2026-3196