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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : curl (SUSE-SU-2026:3814-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 341647

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:3814-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2026-7168: cross-proxy Digest auth state leak (bsc#1263440).
 - CVE-2026-8286: wrong STARTTLS connection reuse (bsc#1268402).
 - CVE-2026-8458: wrong reuse for different services (bsc#1268407).
 - CVE-2026-8924: traling dot domain super cookie (bsc#1268409).
 - CVE-2026-9547: SSH improper host validation (bsc#1268420).
 - CVE-2026-10536: HTTP/2 stream-dependency tree UAF (bsc#1268422).

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 curl, libcurl-devel, libcurl4 and / or libcurl4-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1263440

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1268402

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1268407

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1268409

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1268420

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1268422

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-10536

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-7168

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-8286

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-8458

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-8924

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-9547

http://www.nessus.org/u?5861679b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 341647

File Name: suse_SU-2026-3814-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/31/2026

Updated: 8/31/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-7168

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl4-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl4

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: 8/26/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/30/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-10536, CVE-2026-7168, CVE-2026-8286, CVE-2026-8458, CVE-2026-8924, CVE-2026-9547

IAVA: 2026-A-0397-S, 2026-A-0627

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:3814-1