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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kea (SUSE-SU-2026:1548-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 309886

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:1548-1 advisory.

 Update to release 2.6.5.

 Security issues fixed:

 - CVE-2026-3608: stack overflow error via specially crafted message to the kea-ctrl-agent, kea-dhcp-ddns, kea-dhcp4, or kea-dhcp6 daemons(bsc#1260380).

 Other updates and bugfixes:

 - A null dereference is now no longer possible when configuring the Control Agent with a socket that lacks the mandatory socket-name entry.
 - UNIX sockets are now created as group-writable.
 - Corrected an issue in logging configuration when parsing 'syslog:'.
 - Fixed crash when handling misconfigured global reservations.
 - Support for recent versions of Sphinx has been added.

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1260380

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2026-April/045870.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-3608

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 309886

File Name: suse_SU-2026-1548-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2026

Updated: 4/23/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-3608

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-util87, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kea-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-database62, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-cryptolink50, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-mysql71, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kea-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-http72, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-d2srv47, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-dhcpsrv112, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-pgsql71, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-log61, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-dns%2b%2b57, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-cfgclient67, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-asiodns49, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-util-io0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-kea, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-tcp19, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-exceptions33, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-process76, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-cc69, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kea-hooks, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kea, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-asiolink72, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-dhcp%2b%2b92, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-dhcp_ddns57, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-hooks102, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-stats41, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkea-eval69

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: 4/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-3608

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:1548-1