The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:4744-1 advisory.

    Security issues fixed:

    - CVE-2026-6879: quadratic behavior in `xml.etree.ElementPath` index predicates can lead to a denial of     service via high       CPU usage (bsc#1273148).
    - CVE-2026-9669: crafted input can cause a stack buffer overflow (bsc#1267974).
    - CVE-2026-15310: memory exhaustion in zipfile in bzip2/LZMA/Zstandard decompression (bsc#1277111).
    - CVE-2026-15806: urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgr credentials for one URL scheme sent over another scheme     (bsc#1276223).
    - CVE-2026-17084: StringPrep algorithm considered Unicode codepoint attributes outside Unicode 3.2.0     (bsc#1276226).
    - CVE-2026-18503: attacker-controlled CSV samples can trigger super-linear regular-expression work during     dialect       sniffing and consume significant CPU (bsc#1274683).
    - CVE-2026-19672: tarfile extraction filter bypass allows creation of directories outside the destination     (bsc#1276227).
    - CVE-2026-82049: tarfile extraction filters mishandle archives containing a hard link to a symbolic link,     allowing file       modification and content disclosure (bsc#1280459).

    Changes for python3:

    - Update bundled setuptools wheels to setuptools-40.6.2 (bsc#1276903).

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.

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SUSE SLES12: libpython3_4m1_0 / libpython3_4m1_0-32bit / python3 / python3-base / etc (SUSE-SU-2026:4744-1)

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