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openSUSE Perl-HTTP-Date Moderate CPU Exhaustion Fix CVE-2026-14741

opensuse
Calendar Grey July 24, 2026
Scroller Opensuse
Fixes CPU exhaustion issue in perl-HTTP-Date for openSUSE; important security update included.
openSUSE has released a security update for perl-HTTP-Date addressing vulnerability CVE-2026-14741, allowing CPU exhaustion via regex backtracking, along with a bug fix for openSUS...

Description

This update for perl-HTTP-Date fixes the following issue

- CVE-2026-14741: CPU exhaustion via polynomial regex backtracking in parse_date (bsc#1271705).

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-16.0-1338=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update OpenSUSE cpu exhaustion perl-http-date

Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

perl-HTTP-Date-6.06-160000.3.1

References

* bsc#1271705

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-14741.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:21427-1
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update OpenSUSE cpu exhaustion perl-http-date

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