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openSUSE 16: libopenbabel8 / openbabel / openbabel-devel / openbabel-gui / etc (openSUSE-SU-2026:21190-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 325051

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-2026:21190-1 advisory.

 Changes in openbabel:

 - Update to version 3.2.0:
 * Add an L-BFGS optimizer, used by default for gen3d and conformer searches
 * New macrocycle ring builder (Dale codes) for better initial 3D geometry of large rings
 * Add KET (Ketcher JSON) and ChemicalJSON (.cjson) format support
 * Drop Python 2 support; Python 3.13 supported
 * Faster, vectorized distance-geometry implementation
 * Full CMake 4 compatibility and modernized build
 * Backwards compatible with 3.0 and 3.1
 * Fix many crash and memory-safety bugs found via OSS-Fuzz and TALOS, including the following security issues:
 CVE-2022-37331 (boo#1217676), CVE-2022-41793, CVE-2022-42885, CVE-2022-43467, CVE-2022-43607, CVE-2022-44451, CVE-2022-46280, CVE-2022-46289, CVE-2022-46290, CVE-2022-46291, CVE-2022-46292, CVE-2022-46294, CVE-2022-46295, CVE-2025-10994, CVE-2025-10995, CVE-2025-10996, CVE-2025-10997, CVE-2025-10998, CVE-2025-10999, CVE-2025-11000, CVE-2026-2704 (boo#1258501), CVE-2026-2705 (boo#1258507) and CVE-2026-3408 (boo#1259041)

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/1217676

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1258501

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1258507

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1259041

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-37331

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-41793

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-42885

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-43467

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-43607

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-44451

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46280

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46289

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46290

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46291

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46292

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46294

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46295

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10994

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10995

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10996

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10997

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10998

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10999

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-11000

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-2704

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-2705

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-3408

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 325051

File Name: openSUSE-2026-21190-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/3/2026

Updated: 7/3/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.96

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-10997

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-2705

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 2.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-3408

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openbabel-gui, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libopenbabel8, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openbabel-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-openbabel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openbabel

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: 7/21/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-37331, CVE-2022-41793, CVE-2022-42885, CVE-2022-43467, CVE-2022-43607, CVE-2022-44451, CVE-2022-46280, CVE-2022-46289, CVE-2022-46290, CVE-2022-46291, CVE-2022-46292, CVE-2022-46294, CVE-2022-46295, CVE-2025-10994, CVE-2025-10995, CVE-2025-10996, CVE-2025-10997, CVE-2025-10998, CVE-2025-10999, CVE-2025-11000, CVE-2026-2704, CVE-2026-2705, CVE-2026-3408