SUSE SLES16 Security Update : lcms2 (SUSE-SU-2026:22506-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 325367

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES16 / SLES_SAP16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:22506-1 advisory.

This update for lcms2 fixes the following issues

- CVE-2026-41254: integer overflow in CubeSize in cmslut.c (bsc#1264994).
- CVE-2026-42798: integer overflow in ParseCube in cmscgats.c (bsc#1263703).

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 lcms2, liblcms2-2, liblcms2-devel and / or liblcms2-doc packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 325367

File Name: suse_SU-2026-22506-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/7/2026

Updated: 7/7/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.68

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-41254

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liblcms2-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liblcms2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liblcms2-2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:lcms2, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:16

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: 4/18/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-41254, CVE-2026-42798

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:22506-1

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