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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : cups (SUSE-SU-2026:2718-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 324856

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:2718-1 advisory.

 This update for cups fixes the following issues

 - CVE-2026-27447: Authorization bypass via case-insensitive group-member lookup (bsc#1261572).
 - CVE-2026-34978: Path traversal in RSS notify-recipient-uri enables file write outside CacheDir/rss (bsc#1261571).
 - CVE-2026-34979: Heap overflow in `get_options()` (bsc#1261570).
 - CVE-2026-34980: Shared PostScript queue lets anonymous Print-Job requests reach `lp` code execution over the network (bsc#1261569).
 - CVE-2026-39316: dangling subscription pointer can lead to a denial of service (bsc#1261742).

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/1261569

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1261570

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1261571

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1261572

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1261742

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-27447

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-34978

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-34979

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-34980

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-39316

http://www.nessus.org/u?adaf5ad0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 324856

File Name: suse_SU-2026-2718-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/2/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.7

Percentile: 99.05

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-27447

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-34980

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Threat Score: 5.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-34980

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-libs, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-libs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-devel

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: 7/1/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/3/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-27447, CVE-2026-34978, CVE-2026-34979, CVE-2026-34980, CVE-2026-39316

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:2718-1