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openSUSE 15.4 munge Important Buffer Overflow Vuln 2026-0450-1

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Calendar Grey February 11, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Secure your openSUSE with the latest munge patch to fix an important buffer overflow and enhance local security.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for munge fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2026-25506: buffer overflow in message unpacking (bsc#1257651).

* Make logrotate work on munge log as user munge. This prevents a local

privilege escalation (bsc#1246088).

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow important local escalation OpenSUSE munge

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE 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 15.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2026-450=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-ESPOS-2026-450=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-LTSS-2026-450=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-ESPOS-2026-450=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-LTSS-2026-450=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* libmunge2-debuginfo-0.5.15-150400.18.10.1

* libmunge2-0.5.15-150400.18.10.1

* munge-debugsource-0.5.15-150400.18.10.1

* munge-0.5.15-150400.18.10.1

* munge-debuginfo-0.5.15-150400.18.10.1

* munge-devel-0.5.15-150400.18.10.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)

* munge-devel-32bit-0.5.15-150400.18.10.1

* libmunge2-32bit-0.5.15-150400.18.10.1

* libmunge2-32bit-debuginfo-0.5.15-150400.18.10.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64_ilp32)

* libmunge2-64bit-0.5.15-150400.18.10.1

* munge-devel-64bit-0.5.15-150400.18.10.1

* libmunge2-64bit-debuginfo-0.5.15-150400.18.10.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4 (aarch64

x86_64)

* libmunge2-debuginfo-0.5.15-150400.18.10.1

* libmunge2-0.5.15-150400.18.10.1

* munge-debugsource-0.5.15-150400.18.10.1

* munge-0.5.15-150400.18.10.1

* munge-debuginfo-0.5.15-150400.18.10.1

* munge-devel-0.5.15-150400.18.10.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 (aarch64

x86_64)

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1246088

* bsc#1257651

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-25506.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246088

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257651

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:0450-1
Release Date: 2026-02-11T15:46:24Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow important local escalation OpenSUSE munge

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