openSUSE 16 Security Update : uriparser (openSUSE-SU-2026:21297-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 326685

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-2026:21297-1 advisory.

This update for uriparser fixes the following issues

- CVE-2026-42371: numeric truncation in text range comparison when an application accepts URIs with a length in gigabytes (bsc#1262999).
- CVE-2026-44927: truncation of `ptrdiff_t` to `int` in various places (bsc#1264578).
- CVE-2026-44928: function family `EqualsUri` can misclassify two unequal URIs as equal (bsc#1264579).

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 liburiparser1, uriparser and / or uriparser-devel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 326685

File Name: openSUSE-2026-21297-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/14/2026

Updated: 7/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.73

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-44928

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:uriparser, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:uriparser-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:liburiparser1

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: 7/10/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/27/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-42371, CVE-2026-44927, CVE-2026-44928

IAVA: 2026-A-0412-S, 2026-A-0442

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