openSUSE 16: freeipmi / freeipmi-bmc-watchdog / freeipmi-devel / etc (openSUSE-SU-2026:21883-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 350161

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:21883-1 advisory.

- CVE-2026-85504: stack-based buffer overflow via malformed Fujitsu SEL long-text responses (bsc#1278719).
- CVE-2026-85505: Denial of Service via stack-based buffer over-read in ipmi-oem (bsc#1278722).
- CVE-2026-85506: Arbitrary code execution via stack-based buffer overflow in ipmi-oem (bsc#1278721).
- CVE-2026-85507: stack-based buffer overflow in _output_dell_system_info_cmc_info (bsc#1278724).
- CVE-2026-85508: stack-based buffer overflow in _output_dell_system_info_cmc_ipv6_info (bsc#1278726).
- CVE-2026-85509: stack-based buffer overflow when a BMC returns more bytes than requested (bsc#1278727).

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: 350161

File Name: openSUSE-2026-21883-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/25/2026

Updated: 9/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.29

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-85509

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:freeipmi-bmc-watchdog, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:freeipmi-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:freeipmi-ipmidetectd, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:freeipmi-ipmiseld, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:freeipmi, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfreeipmi17, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libipmiconsole2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libipmidetect0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libipmimonitoring6

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: 9/20/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-85504, CVE-2026-85505, CVE-2026-85506, CVE-2026-85507, CVE-2026-85508, CVE-2026-85509

IAVB: 2026-B-0251

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