SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : alloy (SUSE-SU-2026:4210-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 346794

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:4210-1 advisory.

- CVE-2026-1229: github.com/cloudflare/circl: the CombinedMult function in the ecc/p384 package produces an incorrect value for specific inputs (bsc#1265542).
- CVE-2026-33814: golang.org/x/net/http2: infinite loop in HTTP/2 transport when given bad SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE (bsc#1265845).
- CVE-2026-39821: golang.org/x/net/idna: failure to reject ASCII-only Punycode-encoded labels allows for validation bypass and privilege escalation (bsc#1266654).
- CVE-2026-41506: github.com/go-git/go-git/v5: HTTP authentication credential leak when following redirects during smart-HTTP clone and fetch operations (bsc#1264949).
- CVE-2026-41606: github.com/apache/thrift: crafted nested messages in c_glib dispatch can lead to uncontrolled recursion and denial of service (bsc#1263324).
- CVE-2026-41607: github.com/apache/thrift: crafted message with improper length validation can lead to an out-of-bounds read and potential information disclosure (bsc#1263289).

Changes for alloy:

- Update to version 1.18.0:
* BREAKING: otelcol HTTP receivers default to idle_timeout='1m', read_header_timeout='1m', write_timeout='30s' to match upstream. Affects otlp, faro, jaeger, zipkin, influxdb, splunkhec, datadog and jaeger_remote_sampling.
* Back off usage reporting on persistent failure
* Fix Beyla glob parsing
* Bump github.com/prometheus/procfs for XFS Collector fix
* database_observability.mysql: Simplify denylist in-memory map
* database_observability.postgres: Handle DSN with unix sockets
* database_observability.postgres: Update collect intervals
* database_observability: Explain-plan conditions now redact
* Don't emit error log when remotecfg is unused
* For a full list of changes, please refer to the CHANGELOG:
https://github.com/grafana/alloy/blob/v1.18.0/CHANGELOG.md

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 alloy package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 346794

File Name: suse_SU-2026-4210-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/17/2026

Updated: 9/17/2026

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.7

Temporal Score: 1.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-10722

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-1229

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 2.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-1229

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:alloy

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: 9/16/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-10722, CVE-2026-1229, CVE-2026-33814, CVE-2026-39821, CVE-2026-41506, CVE-2026-41606, CVE-2026-41607

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:4210-1

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