SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : perl-Crypt-URandom (SUSE-SU-2026:1954-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 315293

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:1954-1 advisory.

This update for perl-Crypt-URandom fixes the following issue:

- CVE-2026-2474: negative length parameter in the XS function can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow (bsc#1258266).

Changes for perl-Crypt-URandom:

- updated to 0.550.0 (0.55)

- Fix for sysread/read failures. Thanks to Miha Purg for GH#20
- Fix for test suite failures on STDOUT encoding. Thanks to Lukas Mai for GH#19

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 perl-Crypt-URandom package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 315293

File Name: suse_SU-2026-1954-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/19/2026

Updated: 5/19/2026

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: 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-2026-2474

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:perl-crypt-urandom, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 5/18/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-2474

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:1954-1

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