SUSE SLES12 Security Update : perl (SUSE-SU-2026:3540-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 334468

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:3540-1 advisory.

- CVE-2026-8376: heap buffer overflow when compiling regular expressions with a repeated fixed string on 32-bit builds (bsc#1266304).
- CVE-2026-12087: `Socket`'s `pack_ip_mreq_source()` can copy adjacent heap memory into the returned packed structure (bsc#1268349).
- CVE-2026-57432: an integer overflow in `S_measure_struct` leads to an out-of-bounds heap read in `pack` and `unpack` (bsc#1271372).

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 perl, perl-32bit, perl-base and / or perl-doc packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 334468

File Name: suse_SU-2026-3540-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/11/2026

Updated: 8/11/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7

Percentile: 98.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-8376

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl

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: 8/10/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/25/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-12087, CVE-2026-57432, CVE-2026-8376

IAVA: 2026-A-0618, 2026-A-0696

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:3540-1

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