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openSUSE 15.6 kea Important Stack Overflow Issue SUSE-SU-2026-1548-1

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Calendar Grey April 22, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A security update for openSUSE 15.6 addressing critical stack overflow issues in kea with important severity.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for kea fixes the following issues:

Update to release 2.6.5.

Security issues fixed:

* CVE-2026-3608: stack overflow error via specially crafted message to the

kea-ctrl-agent, kea-dhcp-ddns, kea-dhcp4, or kea-dhcp6 daemons(bsc#1260380).

Other updates and bugfixes:

* A null dereference is now no longer possible when configuring the Control

Agent with a socket that lacks the mandatory socket-name entry.

* UNIX sockets are now created as group-writable.

* Corrected an issue in logging configuration when parsing "syslog:".

* Fixed crash when handling misconfigured global reservations.

* Support for recent versions of Sphinx has been added.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue important stack overflow OpenSUSE kea

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:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP6-2026-1548=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2026-1548=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP6-LTSS-2026-1548=1

Package List

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 (ppc64le x86_64)

* libkea-log61-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* libkea-pgsql71-debuginfo-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* libkea-asiodns49-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* libkea-pgsql71-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* libkea-hooks102-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* kea-devel-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* kea-hooks-debuginfo-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* libkea-cryptolink50-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* libkea-cc69-debuginfo-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* libkea-http72-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* kea-debuginfo-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* libkea-d2srv47-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* libkea-http72-debuginfo-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* libkea-stats41-debuginfo-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* libkea-eval69-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* libkea-exceptions33-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* python3-kea-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* libkea-exceptions33-debuginfo-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* libkea-asiodns49-debuginfo-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* libkea-cfgclient67-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* libkea-database62-debuginfo-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

* libkea-tcp19-debuginfo-2.6.5-150600.13.9.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1260380

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-3608.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1260380

Severity
important
Lowest
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Medium
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Critical

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:1548-1
Release Date: 2026-04-22T09:40:51Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue important stack overflow OpenSUSE kea

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