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openSUSE 16 Security Update : varnish (openSUSE-SU-2026:22131-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 370413

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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-2026:22131-1 advisory.

 Changes in varnish:

 - update to 7.7.3 (bsc#1280114, CVE-2025-8671):
 * https://vinyl-cache.org/docs/7.7/whats-new/changes-7.7.html
 * https://vinyl-cache.org/security/VSV00017.html#vsv00017

 - Update to release 7.7.1
 * VSV-16: Resolve request smuggling attack

 - Update to release 7.7.0
 * The `linux` jail gained control of transparent huge pages settings.
 * An issue has been fixed which could cause a crash when varnishd receives an invalid Content-Range header from a backend.
 * Timestamping for HTTP/2 requests (when idle period begins) has been switched to be more in line with HTTP/1.
 * VSV-15: The client connection is now always closed when a malformed request is received. [CVE-2025-30346, boo#1239892]

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 libvarnishapi3, varnish and / or varnish-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1239892

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1280114

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-30346

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8671

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 370413

File Name: openSUSE-2026-22131-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/22/2026

Updated: 10/22/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.7

Percentile: 96.49

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-30346

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

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:libvarnishapi3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:varnish-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:varnish

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: 10/19/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-30346, CVE-2025-8671