SUSE SLES12 Security Update : spice-vdagent (SUSE-SU-2026:3585-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 335072

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:3585-1 advisory.

Security fixes:

- CVE-2026-57965: integer overflow in `udscs_write()` can lead to heap buffer overflow (bsc#1269553).
- CVE-2026-57966: improper sanitization allows a compromised SPICE host to write arbitrary files to any location on the guest operating system (bsc#1269554).

Other fixes:

- Fix startup issues with spice-vdagent.service (bsc#1189821)

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 spice-vdagent package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 335072

File Name: suse_SU-2026-3585-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/13/2026

Updated: 8/13/2026

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: 3.5

Percentile: 51.85

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-57966

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-57965

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:spice-vdagent

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: 8/11/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/29/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-57965, CVE-2026-57966

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:3585-1

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