SUSE SLES15 Security Update : SDL2_image (SUSE-SU-2026:5158-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 379487

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2026:5158-1 advisory.

This update for SDL2_image fixes the following issue:

- CVE-2026-117557: denial of service via crafted ILBM image file (bsc#1289031).

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 libSDL2_image-2_0-0 and / or libSDL2_image-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1289031

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-117557

http://www.nessus.org/u?b1a7d35c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 379487

File Name: suse_SU-2026-5158-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/12/2026

Updated: 11/12/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

Percentile: 51.47

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-117557

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 4.4

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsdl2_image-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsdl2_image-devel

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: 11/10/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-117557

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:5158-1