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openSUSE nmap Moderate Out-of-Bounds Crash Vulnern 2026-3220-1

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Calendar Grey July 24, 2026
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An update for openSUSE fixes a moderate vulnerability in nmap related to crafted IPv6 responses triggering crashes.
SUSE released a security update for nmap addressing CVE-2026-58058, which resolves a vulnerability that can lead to out-of-bounds reads and crashes in openSUSE Leap 15.4.

Description

This update for nmap fixes the following issue:

* CVE-2026-58058: crafted IPv6 response with a truncated extension header can

trigger out-of-bounds reads and a crash (bsc#1269570).

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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:

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2026-3220=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* ncat-debuginfo-7.92-150400.3.3.1

* ncat-7.92-150400.3.3.1

* nmap-debuginfo-7.92-150400.3.3.1

* nping-7.92-150400.3.3.1

* nmap-7.92-150400.3.3.1

* nping-debuginfo-7.92-150400.3.3.1

* nmap-debugsource-7.92-150400.3.3.1

References

* bsc#1269570

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-58058.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1269570

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:3220-1
Release Date: 2026-07-23T17:37:38Z

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