openSUSE 16 Security Update : kimi-code (openSUSE-SU-2026:21849-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 346189

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:21849-1 advisory.

Changes in kimi-code:

Update to version 0.42.0:

* Add an experimental Updates panel with paginated progress messages from the main agent and subagents, enabled with KIMI_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_NOTIFY_USER=1
* Turn the subagent model pool, Remote Control and the minidb session-index read model with the global search worker always on; their experimental flags and opt-out variables are gone, search persistence is now tuned via the [database] section
* Give tower worker and reviewer briefings the full mission context, follow the subagent timeout for tower agents, and show each background agent's model in /tasks
* Retrieve file search matches beyond the first 100 results, accept HEIC, HEIF and BMP images with Kimi-served models, and warn in kimi -p when project MCP servers are skipped in an untrusted folder
* Read files with configurable character limits and resumable long-line reads, decode malformed UTF-16 with a warning, and preserve image and video filenames in session history
* Rework the dashboard: deletable sessions, reorderable media rail, collapsed tool calls revealed with Ctrl-O, and less jank on long conversations and session reloads

Update to version 0.41.0:

* Add experimental tower mode for multi-agent orchestration and Remote Control for reaching a local web session remotely
* Add the WaitFor tool so the agent can wait for a background task inside the current turn, and an optional fork parameter that starts a subagent from a snapshot of the caller's history
* Support two OAuth login methods, kimi.ai and kimi.com, and activate several skills in one prompt
* Enable the subagent model pool in every launch mode by default and make turn-level file history unconditional
* Add a dangerous-command guard that always asks before shutdown, reboot or rm -rf in manual and YOLO permission modes, disabled with [permission] dangerous_command_guard; auto mode never blocks
* Remove kimi web --allow-remote-terminals; PTY terminal routes are served on loopback binds only
* Require Edit and Write to read a file first, and reject a write when the file changed on disk since that read
* Rework the bundled web dashboard: multi-tab right sidebar, Open/Done/Workspaces session tabs, a plugin marketplace panel and mobile bottom sheets
* ... see upstream's release notes for the full list
- Vendor the runtime dependencies upstream stopped inlining in 0.39.0:
* Add ws, qrcode and qrcode's own pngjs and dijkstrajs as sources, installed into the package's private node_modules
* Unpack the npm tarball directly instead of running npm install, which would resolve the new dependencies against the registry and pull in qrcode's CLI-only yargs tree
* Declare the vendored trees with Provides: bundled(...)
- CVE-2026-48779: ws denial of service from a high volume of tiny WebSocket fragments; the ws inlined in the old bundle predated the 8.21.0 fix, the vendored ws is 8.21.3 (boo#1268927)
- CVE-2026-45736: ws uninitialized memory disclosure via websocket.close() with a TypedArray, fixed by the same ws version (boo#1269951)
- Load the compiled node-pty addon during the build check as well

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 kimi-code package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 346189

File Name: openSUSE-2026-21849-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/16/2026

Updated: 9/16/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.72

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-45736

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:kimi-code

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: 9/14/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/15/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-45736, CVE-2026-48779

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