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openSUSE Leap 16.0 Chromium Moderate Race Condition CVE-2026-1220

opensuse
Calendar Grey January 25, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Update available for openSUSE to fix a moderate issue in Chromium along with bug fixes. Important for all users.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has 2 bug fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for chromium fixes the following issues:

Changes in chromium:

- 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 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 Leap 16.0

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-16.0-packagehub-91=1

Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

chromedriver-144.0.7559.96-bp160.1.1

chromium-144.0.7559.96-bp160.1.1

References

* bsc#1256938

* bsc#1257011

References:

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

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:20103-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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