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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : cups (SUSE-SU-2026:4447-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 363090

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:4447-1 advisory.

 This update for cups fixes the following issue:

 - CVE-2026-41079: crafted SNMP response can lead to stack-based out-of-bounds read and sensitive memory disclosure (bsc#1263116).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1263116

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-41079

http://www.nessus.org/u?2392ce71

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 363090

File Name: suse_SU-2026-4447-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/6/2026

Updated: 10/6/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.1

Percentile: 8.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-41079

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-libs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups

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: 10/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-41079

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:4447-1