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openSUSE Leap 16.0 net-tools Low Denial of Service CVE-2024-58251

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Calendar Grey July 24, 2026
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Update available for openSUSE Leap 16.0 that fixes a low severity denial of service issue in net-tools.
openSUSE has released a security update for net-tools addressing a denial of service vulnerability (CVE-2024-58251) affecting openSUSE Leap 16.0, along with a bug fix.

Description

This update for net-tools fixes the following issue:

- CVE-2024-58251: denial of service via terminal escape sequences (bsc#1254323).

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-16.0-1340=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update net-tools low OpenSUSE

Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

net-tools-2.10-160000.4.1

net-tools-deprecated-2.10-160000.4.1

net-tools-lang-2.10-160000.4.1

References

* bsc#1254323

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-58251.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:21429-1
Rating: low

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