openSUSE 16 Security Update : coredns (openSUSE-SU-2026:20619-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 310251

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-2026:20619-1 advisory.

Changes in coredns:

- Update to version 1.14.2:
* plugin/reload: Allow disabling jitter with 0s
* bump deps
* plugin/forward: fix parsing error when handling TLS+IPv6 address
* plugin/loop: use crypto/rand for query name generation
* plugin: reorder rewrite before acl to prevent bypass
* fix(rewrite): fix cname target rewrite for CNAME chains
* fix(kubernetes): panic on empty ListenHosts
* chore: bump minimum Go version to 1.25
* feat(proxyproto): add proxy protocol support
* refactor(cache): modernize with generics
* Add metadata for response Type and Class to Log
* docs: clarify kubernetes auth docs
* fix: return SOA and NS records when queried for a record CNAMEd to origin

- fixes bsc#1259320 CVE-2026-26017
- fixes bsc#1259319 CVE-2026-26018

- address more unstable unstable tests under aarch64 and s390x

- Update to version 1.14.1:
* This release primarily addresses security vulnerabilities affecting Go versions prior to Go 1.25.6 and Go 1.24.12 (CVE-2025-61728, CVE-2025-61726, CVE-2025-68121, CVE-2025-61731, CVE-2025-68119).
It also includes performance improvements to the proxy plugin via multiplexed connections, along with various documentation updates.

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 coredns and / or coredns-extras packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 310251

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20619-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/25/2026

Updated: 4/25/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.1

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-2025-68121

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:coredns, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:coredns-extras, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0

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: 4/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/22/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-61726, CVE-2025-61728, CVE-2025-61731, CVE-2025-68119, CVE-2025-68121, CVE-2026-26017, CVE-2026-26018

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