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openSUSE 16 Security Update : alloy (openSUSE-SU-2026:21442-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 330076

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2026:21442-1 advisory.

 This update for alloy fixes the following issue:

 Update to version 1.17.1.

 Security issue fixed:

 - CVE-2026-10722: github.com/cilium/ebpf: interger overflow when performing BTF string offset boundary check can lead to crash when malformed ELF/BTF input is parsed (bsc#1267811).

 Other updates and bugfixes:
 - Version 1.17.1:
 * Back off usage reporting on persistent failure instead of retrying every minute.

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 alloy package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1267811

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-10722

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 330076

File Name: openSUSE-2026-21442-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/27/2026

Updated: 7/27/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.77

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.7

Temporal Score: 1.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-10722

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:alloy

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: 7/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/3/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-10722