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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ghostscript (SUSE-SU-2026:5039-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 376259

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:5039-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2026-101258: -dSAFER sandbox bypass via Type 5 shading OOB write and procedure-stream use-after-free (bsc#1284397).
 - CVE-2026-103226: stack-based buffer overflow in `pdfwrite` via crafted font data (bsc#1283917).

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 ghostscript, ghostscript-devel and / or ghostscript-x11 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1283917

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1284397

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-101258

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-103226

http://www.nessus.org/u?f466e33b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 376259

File Name: suse_SU-2026-5039-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/5/2026

Updated: 11/5/2026

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: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.14

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-103226

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-101258

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 1.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-x11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript

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: 11/2/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/30/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-101258, CVE-2026-103226

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:5039-1