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openSUSE Salt Important Denial of Service Fix 2026-2256-1

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Calendar Grey June 3, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
# Security update for salt Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:2256-1 Release Date: 2026-06-03T14:20:38Z R
An update that solves one vulnerability, contains one feature and has five security fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for salt fixes the following issue:

Security issues fixed:

* CVE-2026-31958: python-tornado: parsing large multipart bodies with many

parts can cause a denial of service (bsc#1259554).

Other updates and bugfixes:

* Use non vendored Tornado with Python 3.11 (bsc#1257583, bsc#1259700)

* Harden Tornado from invalid HTTP reason phrases

* Read full URI from ldap pillar config (bsc#1254900)

* Make users with backslash work for `salt-ssh` (bsc#1254629).

* Fixed `ansible.playbooks` `extra-vars` quoting (bsc#1257831),

* Fixed `virtualenv` call in test helper to use proper Python version.

## Special Instructions and Notes:

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Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2026-2256=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-ESPOS-2026-2256=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP5-LTSS-2026-2256=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP6-LTSS-2026-2256=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2026-2256=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP5-2026-2256=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP6-2026-2256=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch...

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Package List

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* salt-minion-3006.0-150500.4.75.1

* python3-salt-3006.0-150500.4.75.1

* salt-transactional-update-3006.0-150500.4.75.1

* salt-3006.0-150500.4.75.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 (aarch64

x86_64)

* salt-api-3006.0-150500.4.75.1

* salt-syndic-3006.0-150500.4.75.1

* python311-salt-3006.0-150500.4.75.1

* salt-doc-3006.0-150500.4.75.1

* salt-ssh-3006.0-150500.4.75.1

* salt-proxy-3006.0-150500.4.75.1

* salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3006.0-150500.4.75.1

* salt-3006.0-150500.4.75.1

* salt-cloud-3006.0-150500.4.75.1

* salt-master-3006.0-150500.4.75.1

* python3-salt-3006.0-150500.4.75.1

* salt-minion-3006.0-150500.4.75.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 (noarch)

* salt-bash-completion-3006.0-150500.4.75.1

* salt-fish-completion-3006.0-150500.4.75.1

* salt-zsh-completion-3006.0-150500.4.75.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS (noarch)

*...

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References

* bsc#1254629

* bsc#1254900

* bsc#1257583

* bsc#1257831

* bsc#1259554

* bsc#1259700

* jsc#MSQA-1052

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-31958.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254629

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254900

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257583

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257831

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259554

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259700

* https://jira.suse.com/browse/MSQA-1052

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:2256-1
Release Date: 2026-06-03T14:20:38Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

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