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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : firebird (SUSE-SU-2026:1868-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 315043

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:1868-1 advisory.

 This update for firebird fixes the following issues

 - CVE-2025-65104: Information leak vulnerability in firebird3 client when used with newer (>= 4) server (bsc#1262330).
 - CVE-2026-27890: Pre-Auth DOS (bsc#1262328).
 - CVE-2026-28212: One packet DoS (bsc#1262329).
 - CVE-2026-28214: Server hangs when using specific clumplet on batch creation (bsc#1262327).
 - CVE-2026-28224: CryptCallback DOS (bsc#1262326).
 - CVE-2026-33337: Buffer overflow on parsing corrupted slice packet (bsc#1262325).
 - CVE-2026-34232: DoS via `op_response` packet from client (bsc#1262324).
 - CVE-2026-35215: DoS via malicious slice descriptor in slice packet (bsc#1262322).
 - CVE-2026-40342: Path traversal when declaring external routine (bsc#1262320).

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/1262320

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1262322

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1262324

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1262325

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1262326

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1262327

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1262328

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1262329

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1262330

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2026-May/046499.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-65104

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-27890

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-28212

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-28214

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-28224

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-33337

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-34232

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-35215

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40342

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 315043

File Name: suse_SU-2026-1868-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/16/2026

Updated: 5/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-65104

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Threat Score: 5.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-28214

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:firebird-examples, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:firebird-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libib_util-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:firebird-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libfbclient2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:firebird, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libfbclient-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libib_util

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: 5/15/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/17/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-65104, CVE-2026-27890, CVE-2026-28212, CVE-2026-28214, CVE-2026-28224, CVE-2026-33337, CVE-2026-34232, CVE-2026-35215, CVE-2026-40342

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:1868-1