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Calendar Grey April 21, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A critical update for openSUSE cockpit-subscriptions addresses a significant issue related to ReDoS vulnerabilities.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one bug fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for cockpit-subscriptions fixes the following issue:

- CVE-2026-26996: minimatch: ReDoS when glob pattern contains many consecutive wildcards followed by a literal character

that doesn't appear in the test string (bsc#1258637).

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-16.0-555=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory important OpenSUSE minimatch REDoS cockpit-subscriptions

Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

cockpit-subscriptions-12.1-160000.3.1

References

* bsc#1258637

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-26996.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:20532-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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Topics Covered

security advisory important OpenSUSE minimatch REDoS cockpit-subscriptions

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