openSUSE 16 Security Update : libarchive (openSUSE-SU-2026:21631-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 341175

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2026:21631-1 advisory.

- Fix creation of temporary files in target directory (bsc#1254340)
- Fix out-of-bounds buffer overrun when using p[H_LEVEL_OFFSET] (bsc#1254341)
- Fix buffer overrun in archive_le32dec when reading truncated 7zip headers (bsc#1254342)
- Fix NULL pointer dereference in archive_acl_from_text_w() (bsc#1260998)
- Fix SEGV in check_7zip_header_in_sfx via ELF offset validation (bsc#1260999)
- Fix out-of-bounds access on ELF 64-bit header (bsc#1261000)
- Fix RAR5 memory leak with many filters (bsc#1261002)
- Fix file descriptor leak in mtree parser cleanup (bsc#1261003)

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 bsdtar, libarchive-devel and / or libarchive13 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 341175

File Name: openSUSE-2026-21631-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/28/2026

Updated: 8/28/2026

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bsdtar, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libarchive-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libarchive13

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: 8/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2026

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