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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ldns (SUSE-SU-2026:2462-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 321924

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:2462-1 advisory.

 This update for ldns fixes the following issue

 - CVE-2026-10846: When ldns is used by applications for (stub) resolving, it does not sufficiently verify that received responses belong to a sent query (bsc#1267670).

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 ldns, ldns-devel, libldns3 and / or perl-DNS-LDNS packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1267670

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2026-June/047436.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-10846

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 321924

File Name: suse_SU-2026-2462-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/22/2026

Updated: 6/22/2026

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:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-10846

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:H/A:N

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Threat Score: 4.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libldns3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ldns, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-dns-ldns, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ldns-devel, 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: 6/19/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/10/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-10846

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:2462-1