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openSUSE Leap 16.0 cockpit-podman Important CPU ReDoS Advisory 20502-1

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Calendar Grey April 21, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This advisory details critical updates for cockpit-podman addressing high-severity issues on openSUSE Leap 16.0.
An update that solves 2 vulnerabilities and has 2 bug fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for cockpit-podman fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2026-25547: brace-expansion: unbounded brace range expansion can lead to excessive CPU and memory consumption and

may crash a Node.js process (bsc#1257836).

- 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#1258641).

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-16.0-518=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory important cpu consumption OpenSUSE REDoS cockpit-podman

Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

cockpit-podman-117-160000.2.1

References

* bsc#1257836

* bsc#1258641

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-25547.html

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

Severity
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:20502-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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Topics Covered

security advisory important cpu consumption OpenSUSE REDoS cockpit-podman

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