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SUSE SLES12: strongswan / strongswan-doc / strongswan-hmac / strongswan-ipsec / etc (SUSE-SU-2026:4147-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 346203

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-2026:4147-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2026-78123: Undefined Memory Access When Handling PKCS#7 Containers (bsc#1276533).
 - CVE-2026-78124: Memory Leak When Processing Certificates in PKCS#7 Containers (bsc#1276534).
 - CVE-2026-78126: NULL-Pointer Dereference When Handling AKA-Synchronization-Failure (bsc#1276536).
 - CVE-2026-78127: Memory Leak During Message Stringification (bsc#1276539).
 - CVE-2026-78129: Unbounded Iteration When Decrypting PKCS#7 Containers (bsc#1276540).
 - CVE-2026-78130: NULL-Pointer Dereference in Attribute Certificate Validation (bsc#1276541).
 - CVE-2026-78131: Memory Leaks When Parsing Attribute Certificates (bsc#1276543).

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1276533

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1276534

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1276536

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1276539

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1276540

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1276541

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1276543

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-78123

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-78124

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-78126

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-78127

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-78129

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-78130

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-78131

http://www.nessus.org/u?d62f54ff

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 346203

File Name: suse_SU-2026-4147-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/16/2026

Updated: 9/16/2026

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

Percentile: 23.61

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-78124

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

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:strongswan-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:strongswan-hmac, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:strongswan-ipsec, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:strongswan-libs0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:strongswan

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: 9/14/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/10/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-78123, CVE-2026-78124, CVE-2026-78126, CVE-2026-78127, CVE-2026-78129, CVE-2026-78130, CVE-2026-78131

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:4147-1