SUSE SLES15: cpupower / cpupower-bash-completion / cpupower-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2026:5123-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 377671

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:5123-1 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:

Release to latest kernel-source including these fixes:
- intel-speed-select: Harden daemon pidfile open (CVE-2026-80663 bsc#1278335)
- turbostat: Increase the limit for fd opened (bsc#1233119).
- turbostat: report CoreThr per measurement interval
- turbostat: Increase CPU_SUBSET_MAXCPUS to 8192 (bsc#1241175)
- turbostat: Fix trailing '\n' parsing
- turbostat: Increase the limit for fd opened
- cpupower: Fix incorrect size in cpuidle_state_disable()
- cpupower: Add missing powercap_set_enabled() stub function
- cpupower: fix TSC MHz calculation
- cpupower: fix error return value in cpupower_write_sysfs()
- cpupower: Fix a bug where the -t option of the set subcommand was not working
- cpupower: Fix the snapshot-order of tsc,mperf, clock in mperf_stop()

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 377671

File Name: suse_SU-2026-5123-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/9/2026

Updated: 11/9/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, 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:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cpupower-bash-completion, 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: 11/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-80663

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:5123-1

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