SUSE SLES12 Security Update : parted (SUSE-SU-2026:5090-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 376968

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-2026:5090-1 advisory.

- CVE-2026-89085: heap-based buffer overflow via crafted FAT32 filesystem image (bsc#1286017).
- CVE-2026-89088: denial of service via heap buffer overflow during FAT16 resize (bsc#1286018).

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 libparted0, parted and / or parted-devel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 376968

File Name: suse_SU-2026-5090-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/6/2026

Updated: 11/6/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.9

Percentile: 52.51

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-89088

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-89085

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libparted0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:parted-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:parted

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: 11/3/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/14/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-89085, CVE-2026-89088

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:5090-1

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