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openSUSE 16 Security Update : glibc (openSUSE-SU-2026:20133-1)

🗓️ 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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OpenSUSE sixteen glibc security update fixes four CVEs and optimizes NPTL trylock.

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    Security fixes:

    - CVE-2025-0395: Fixed buffer overflow in the assert() function (bsc#1236282).
    - CVE-2026-0861: Fixed inadequate size check in the memalign suite may result in an integer overflow
    (bsc#1256766).
    - CVE-2026-0915: Fixed uninitialized stack buffer used as DNS query name when net==0 in
    _nss_dns_getnetbyaddr_r (bsc#1256822).
    - CVE-2025-15281: Fixed uninitialized memory may cause the process abort (bsc#1257005).

    Other fixes:

    - NPTL: Optimize trylock for high cache contention workloads (bsc#1256436)

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include('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/SuSE/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || os_release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'openSUSE');
var _os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^SUSE([\d.]+)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(_os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'openSUSE');
_os_ver = _os_ver[1];
if (os_release !~ "^(SUSE16\.0)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, 'openSUSE', '16.0', os_release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'openSUSE ' + _os_ver, cpu);

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}

if (flag)
{
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04 Feb 2026 00:00Current
5.8Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.8
CVSS 3.18.4
EPSS0.00627
SSVC
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