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Critical Privilege Escalation Alert for openSUSE - SUSE-SU-2026-2008-1

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Calendar Grey May 19, 2026
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Important security advisory for openSUSE addressing root exploit in haveged, CVE-2026-41054. Installation recommended.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for haveged fixes the following issue

* CVE-2026-41054: missing exit out of permission check could lead to root

exploit (bsc#1264086).

Changes for haveged:

* Improvements on the linux kernel random subsystem have made move forward to

socket communication within private network

* Fix "stop" of service, the daemon in foreground actually see daemon(7) for

the rationale. Only "simple" (default) and the help of udev, as starting

services while starved of entropy

* Add ppc64le support

* update to 1.8

* Correct additional run-time test aligment problems on mips.

* haveged 1.7a

* Correct VPATH issues and modify check target to support parallel builds and

changes in automake 1.13 test harness.

* Remove all sysvinit compatibility.

* fix powerpc detection

* Current version does support ARM, remove the ExcludeArch need network and

can use PrivateNetwork=yes

* Add online tests based on AIS-31

* Fix install target, move to bin and...

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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 High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-ESPOS-2026-2008=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-LTSS-2026-2008=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2026-2008=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2026-2008=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2026-2008=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2026-2008=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2026-2008=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2026-2008=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4

zy...

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Package List

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 (aarch64

x86_64)

* libhavege2-1.9.14-150400.3.11.1

* haveged-1.9.14-150400.3.11.1

* haveged-devel-1.9.14-150400.3.11.1

* haveged-debuginfo-1.9.14-150400.3.11.1

* haveged-debugsource-1.9.14-150400.3.11.1

* libhavege2-debuginfo-1.9.14-150400.3.11.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5 (aarch64

x86_64)

* libhavege2-1.9.14-150400.3.11.1

* libhavege2-debuginfo-1.9.14-150400.3.11.1

* haveged-1.9.14-150400.3.11.1

* haveged-devel-1.9.14-150400.3.11.1

* haveged-debuginfo-1.9.14-150400.3.11.1

* haveged-debugsource-1.9.14-150400.3.11.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* libhavege2-1.9.14-150400.3.11.1

* libhavege2-debuginfo-1.9.14-150400.3.11.1

* haveged-1.9.14-150400.3.11.1

* haveged-devel-1.9.14-150400.3.11.1

* haveged-debuginfo-1.9.14-150400.3.11.1

* haveged-debugsource-1.9.14-150400.3.11.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)

* libhavege2-1.9.14-150400.3.11.1

*...

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References

* bsc#1264086

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-41054.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1264086

Severity
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Critical

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:2008-1
Release Date: 2026-05-19T11:55:08Z
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 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

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