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openSUSE 16: apache2-mod_php8 / php8 / php8-bcmath / php8-bz2 / php8-calendar / etc (openSUSE-SU-2026:21532-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 333268

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-2026:21532-1 advisory.

 This update for php8 fixes the following issues

 - Update to version 8.4.24
 - CVE-2026-7260: Stack overflow in phar with circular symlinks (bsc#1273077).
 - CVE-2026-9672: Upgrade libgd (bsc#1273078).
 - CVE-2026-17543: SQL injection in ext-pgsql via E'...' backslash breakout (bsc#1273075).
 - CVE-2026-17544: Out-of-bounds write in bccomp() via crafted operand and scale (bsc#1273076).

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/1273075

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1273076

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1273077

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1273078

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-17543

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-17544

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-7260

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-9672

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 333268

File Name: openSUSE-2026-21532-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/7/2026

Updated: 8/7/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-17544

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:apache2-mod_php8, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-bz2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-calendar, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-cli, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-ctype, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-dba, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-dom, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-embed, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-enchant, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-exif, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-fastcgi, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-ffi, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-fileinfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-fpm-apache, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-fpm, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-ftp, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-gd, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-gettext, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-gmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-iconv, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-intl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-odbc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-opcache, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-pcntl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-pdo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-phar, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-posix, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-readline, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-shmop, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-snmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-soap, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-sockets, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-sodium, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-sysvmsg, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-sysvsem, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-sysvshm, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-test, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-tidy, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-tokenizer, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-xmlreader, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-xmlwriter, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-xsl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-zip, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8-zlib, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php8

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: 8/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/28/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-17543, CVE-2026-17544, CVE-2026-7260, CVE-2026-9672

IAVA: 2026-A-0814