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openSUSE Backports for SLE-15-SP6 Fix Chromium CVE-2026-1220 Issue

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Calendar Grey January 23, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Update addresses moderate race condition in Chromium for openSUSE, enhancing security against potential threats.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for chromium fixes the following issues:

- Chromium 144.0.7559.96 (boo#1257011)

* CVE-2026-1220: Race in V8

- update INSTALL.sh to handle the addded tags in the desktop file

(boo#1256938)

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP6:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2026-27=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le x86_64):

chromedriver-144.0.7559.96-bp156.2.218.1

chromium-144.0.7559.96-bp156.2.218.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-1220.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1256938

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1257011

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:0027-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP6 le.

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