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openSUSE Leap 16.0 openCryptoki Security Patch CVE-2026-40253

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Calendar Grey May 8, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Update for openCryptoki in openSUSE Leap 16.0 fixes moderate issues and enhances system support. Read more!
An update that solves one vulnerability and has 2 bug fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for openCryptoki fixes the following issues

Security issue:

- CVE-2026-40253: Updated fix for malformed BER-encoded cryptographic objects

(bsc#1262283).

Non security issue:

- Refactored .spec file to fully support transactional and immutable operating systems

(jsc#PED-14609):

* Migrated user and group creation (pkcs11, pkcsslotd) from imperative %pre shell commands to

declarative systemd-sysusers configuration.

* Replaced manual /var directory tracking and %ghost directives with

comprehensive systemd-tmpfiles configurations.

* Implemented dynamic, architecture-specific tmpfiles.d generation to properly provision

hardware-specific token directories (e.g., ccatok, ep11tok, lite, and HSM_MK_CHANGE).

- Fixed permissions for /run/opencryptoki within tmpfiles.d to ensure the

daemon can successfully drop privileges and bind its communication socket.

* Moved 32-bit and 64-bit shared library symlink creation (such as PKCS11_API.so, stdll, and methods)

from %post...

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Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

openCryptoki-3.26.0-160000.2.1

openCryptoki-64bit-3.26.0-160000.2.1

openCryptoki-devel-3.26.0-160000.2.1

References

* bsc#1262283

* bsc#1263819

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40253.html

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:20699-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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