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Fedora 42 opkssh Critical CVE-2026-34986 Denial of Service Advisory

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Calendar Grey April 22, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fix for critical DoS threat in opkssh for Fedora 42 addresses CVE-2026-34986 with essential updates.
Fix CVE-2026-34986 in bundled go-jose

Summary

OpenPubkey SSH is a tool which enables ssh to be used with OpenID Connect

allowing SSH access to be managed via identities like alice@example.com instead

of long-lived SSH keys.

Update Information:

Fix CVE-2026-34986 in bundled go-jose

Change Log

* Sat Apr 11 2026 Till Hofmann - 0.13.0-8 - Update bundled go-jose to v4.1.4

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2455639 - CVE-2026-34986 opkssh: Go JOSE: Denial of Service via crafted JSON Web Encryption (JWE) object [epel-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2455639 [ 2 ] Bug #2455667 - CVE-2026-34986 opkssh: Go JOSE: Denial of Service via crafted JSON Web Encryption (JWE) object [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2455667

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-245867ac28' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: opkssh
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 0.13.0
Release: 8.fc42
Summary: OpenPubkey SSH

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