openSUSE 16 Security Update : amazon-ecs-init (openSUSE-SU-2026:22035-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 364345

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:22035-1 advisory.

- CVE-2026-41178: go.opentelemetry.io/otel/baggage: no rejection of raw-length headers in baggage parsing allows for DoS via oversized inputs (bsc#1276744).
- CVE-2026-84303: google.golang.org/grpc: xDS RBAC HTTP filter implementation issue allows for bypass of authorization policies via mixed-case or canonical-case header matches (bsc#1279329).
- CVE-2026-84304: google.golang.org/grpc: heap memory exhaustion via HTTP/2 DATA frame fragmentation (bsc#1279231).

Changes for amazon-ecs-init:

- Update to version 1.107.0
* Feature - Add MPS GPU Sharing capability (#5139)
* Enhancement - Add MPS control daemon health gate task resource (#5107)
* Enhancement - Surface MPS control-daemon impairment reason as StatusReason (#5125)
* Enhancement - Attach the MPS control daemon health gate to MPS tasks (#5119)
* Enhancement - Add ACCELERATED_COMPUTE health check for the MPS control daemon (#5124)
* Enhancement - Fetch GPG keys from S3 instead of GitHub in ECS Anywhere install script (#5130)
* Enhancement - Bump github.com/prometheus/common from 0.66.1 to 0.71.0 in /ecs-agent (#5117)
* Enhancement - Bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials from 1.19.32 to 1.20.4 in /agent (#5128)
* Enhancement - Bump github.com/containerd/containerd from 1.7.33 to 1.7.35 in /ecs-init (#5133)
* Enhancement - Bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.82.1 to 1.83.1, this also updated go.opentelemetry.io/otel to v1.44.0 in /ecs-agent, /ecs-agent/daemonimages/csidriver and /agent (#5123)
* Enhancement - Bump k8s.io/api from 0.28.1 to 0.37.0 in /agent (#5118)
* Enhancement - Correct broken systemd link in README (#5129)
* Enhancement - Bump golang.org/x/text and related dependencies (#5100)
* Enhancement - Bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/ec2/imds from 1.18.33 to 1.18.38 in /ecs-agent (#5093)
* Enhancement - Bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/secretsmanager from 1.35.2 to 1.44.7 in /agent (#5094)
* Enhancement - Bump github.com/gorilla/websocket from 1.5.0 to 1.5.3 (#5108)
* Enhancement - Update Go version to 1.26.7 (#5105)
* Enhancement - Add amazon-ecs-agent.gpg and amazon-ssm-agent.gpg to the CodePipeline release artifacts (#5101)
* Enhancement - IMDS credentials scanner/refresher: Add logging and validations (#5091)
* Enhancement - Bump github.com/containerd/cgroups/v3 from 3.0.4 to 3.1.3 in /agent (#5081)
* Enhancement - Bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.81.1 to 1.82.1 in /ecs-agent and /agent (#5085)
* Enhancement - Bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials from 1.19.29 to 1.19.32 in /ecs-agent, /agent and /ecs-init (#5080)
* Bugfix - fix(handlers): raise fault rate limit to 1 rps (#5092)
* Feature - Nvidia MPS GPU sharing (not yet enabled)
* Add MPS control-daemon health probe (#5095)
* Add per-GPU memory accounting to host resource manager (#5090)
* Allow MPS containers to colocate on a shared GPU (#5083)
* Mount MPS control binary and pipe dir into the agent container (#5086)
* Move MPS pipe directory to /run/mps-ecs (#5102)
* Enhancement - Add retry for EFS volume creation to handle plugin timeout errors caused by concurrent mount operation (#5077)
* Enhancement - Bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config from 1.32.23 to 1.32.31 in /agent (#5064)
* Enhancement - Bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.79.3 to 1.82.1 in /ecs-agent/daemonimages/csidriver (#5056)
* Enhancement - Bump github.com/gorilla/mux from 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 in /ecs-agent (#5063)
* Enhancement - add nos3readcache S3 Files mount option (#5062)
* Add ecs.capability.gpu-sharing-mps capability for NVIDIA MPS GPU sharing (#5053)
* Inject NVIDIA MPS env vars and pipe mount into MPS containers (#5082)
* Map ACS GPU sharingStrategy onto the internal container model for MPS (#5076)
* Gate gpu-sharing-mps on complete per-GPU memory- (#5075) (#5075)
* Regenerate ACS model for GPU sharingStrategy and validate it (#5071)
* Report per-GPU memory at container instance registration for GPU sharing (#5061)
* Regenerate ECS SDK with gpuInfo on PlatformDevice (#5060)

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 amazon-ecs-init package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 364345

File Name: openSUSE-2026-22035-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/9/2026

Updated: 10/9/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.39

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-84303

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-41178

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-84304

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:amazon-ecs-init

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: 10/6/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-41178, CVE-2026-84303, CVE-2026-84304

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