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SUSE SLES16: cpupower / cpupower-bash-completion / cpupower-bench / etc (SUSE-SU-2026:24362-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 372253

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES16 / SLES_SAP16 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:24362-1 advisory.

 This update for cpupower fixes the following issue:

 - CVE-2026-80663: tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: Harden daemon pidfile open (bsc#1278335).

 Changes for cpupower:

 - intel-speed-select: Harden daemon pidfile open (git-fixes, bsc#1278335, CVE-2026-80663)
 - turbostat: Fix microcode patch level output for AMD/Hygon (git-fixes)
 - cpupower: Reset errno before strtoull() (stable-fixes)
 - intel-speed-select: Fix file descriptor leak in isolate_cpus() (git-fixes)
 - cpupower: Fix incorrect size in cpuidle_state_disable() (stable-fixes)
 - cpupower: fix error return value in cpupower_write_sysfs() (stable-fixes)
 - cpufreq: Fix a bug where the -t option of the set subcommand was not working (stable-fixes)
 - turbostat: Clustered Uncore MHz counters should honor show/hide options (stable-fixes)
 - turbostat: Handle non-root legacy-uncore sysfs permissions (stable-fixes)
 - turbostat: Handle cap_get_proc() ENOSYS (stable-fixes)
 - turbostat: Fix build with musl (stable-fixes)
 - cpupower: Fix the snapshot-order of tsc,mperf, clock in mperf_stop() (stable-fixes)
 - power turbostat: Fix bogus SysWatt for forked program (git-fixes)
 - cpupower: bench: Prevent NULL dereference on malloc failure (stable-fixes)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1278335

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-80663

http://www.nessus.org/u?619d2829

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 372253

File Name: suse_SU-2026-24362-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/27/2026

Updated: 10/27/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.49

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-80663

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:16, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cpupower-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cpupower-bench, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cpupower-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cpupower-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cpupower, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcpupower1

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: 10/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/28/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-80663

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:24362-1