SUSE SLES12: glibc / glibc-32bit / glibc-devel / glibc-devel-32bit / etc (SUSE-SU-2026:4204-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 346800

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-2026:4204-1 advisory.

- CVE-2026-6368: wordexp WRDE_APPEND rollback restores stale we_wordv, leading to invalid free in wordfree (bsc#1274726).
- CVE-2026-6791: wordexp: unbounded alloca (strndupa) in parse_tilde (bsc#1274723).
- CVE-2026-18374: overflow in the fopen ccs extension (bsc#1277262).
- CVE-2026-19542: Fix out-of-bounds array write in tdelete (bsc#1276946).
- CVE-2026-77117: non-progress DoS in SHIFT_JISX0213 -> UCS-4 conversion state handling (bsc#1277921).
- CVE-2026-80489: non-progress DoS in SHIFT_JISX0213 -> UCS-4 conversion state handling (bsc#1277922).

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 346800

File Name: suse_SU-2026-4204-1.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: Low

Score: 3.9

Percentile: 52.41

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-6791

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-19542

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-devel-static, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-html, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-i18ndata, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-info, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-locale-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-locale, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-profile-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-profile, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nscd

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: 9/16/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/10/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-18374, CVE-2026-19542, CVE-2026-6368, CVE-2026-6791, CVE-2026-77117, CVE-2026-80489

IAVA: 2026-A-0897

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:4204-1

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