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SUSE SLES12: glibc / glibc-32bit / glibc-devel / glibc-devel-32bit / etc (SUSE-SU-2026:4654-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 366060

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-2026:4654-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2026-86805: TOCTOU race condition in the dynamic loader allows local attackers to escalate privileges (bsc#1282509).
 - CVE-2026-89092: nscd stack overflow leads to degraded DNS resolution (bsc#1282449).

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1282449

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1282509

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-86805

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-89092

http://www.nessus.org/u?1eab7a16

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 366060

File Name: suse_SU-2026-4654-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/15/2026

Updated: 10/15/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.5

Percentile: 57.76

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-86805

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

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: 10/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-86805, CVE-2026-89092

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:4654-1