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Fedora Core 36 libsoup Significant HTTP Injection Flaw 2027-28389-5

opensuse
Calendar Grey February 11, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Update for openSUSE fixes important issues in libsoup, addressing HTTP header injection and buffer overflow risks.
An update that solves 2 vulnerabilities and has 2 bug fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for libsoup fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2026-1536: HTTP header injection or response splitting via CRLF injection in the Content-Disposition header

(bsc#1257440).

- CVE-2026-1761: incorrect length calculation when parsing of multipart HTTP responses can lead to a stack-based

buffer overflow (bsc#1257598).

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-16.0-250=1

Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

libsoup-3_0-0-3.6.5-160000.4.1

libsoup-devel-3.6.5-160000.4.1

libsoup-lang-3.6.5-160000.4.1

typelib-1_0-Soup-3_0-3.6.5-160000.4.1

References

* bsc#1257440

* bsc#1257598

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-1536.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-1761.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:20186-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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