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openSUSE Leap gsasl Important DoS Fix Advisory 2026-21004-1 CVE-2026-48829

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Calendar Grey June 30, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Update for openSUSE Leap addresses critical gsasl security issue with CVE-2026-48829 and includes a bug fix.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one bug fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for gsasl fixes the following issues:

Changes in gsasl:

- CVE-2026-48829: DIGEST-MD5: Fix NULL pointer dereference in parser (bsc#1266371)

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-16.0-1016=1

Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

gsasl-2.2.1-160000.3.1

gsasl-devel-2.2.1-160000.3.1

gsasl-lang-2.2.1-160000.3.1

libgsasl18-2.2.1-160000.3.1

References

* bsc#1266371

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-48829.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:21004-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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