openSUSE 16 Security Update : busybox (openSUSE-SU-2026:22040-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 364346

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-2026:22040-1 advisory.

- CVE-2023-42366: heap-buffer-overflow in the next_token function (bsc#1217586).
- CVE-2026-38752: Denial of Service via crafted AWK script (bsc#1271544).
- CVE-2026-38753: use-after-free in awk_sub() (bsc#1271545).
- CVE-2026-38754: heap overflow in ifsbreakup() (bsc#1271547).
- CVE-2026-38755: heap overflow in evalcommand() (bsc#1271548).

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 busybox, busybox-static and / or busybox-warewulf3 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 364346

File Name: openSUSE-2026-22040-1.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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-42366

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:busybox-static, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:busybox-warewulf3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:busybox

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: 10/6/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/27/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-42366, CVE-2026-38752, CVE-2026-38753, CVE-2026-38754, CVE-2026-38755

Detections

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