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openSUSE yq Important Security Fix for CVE-2026-39821 and CVE-2026-56852

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Calendar Grey July 28, 2026
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Two vulnerabilities addressed in yq with important updates for openSUSE. Install recommendations included.
SUSE has released a security update for yq addressing two vulnerabilities, enhancing functionalities, and fixing multiple issues in version 4.53.3, applicable to various SUSE produ...

Description

This update for yq fixes the following issues:

Update to v4.53.3.

* CVE-2026-39821: golang.org/x/net/idna: failure to reject ASCII-only

Punycode-encoded labels allows for validation bypass and privilege

escalation (bsc#1267199).

* CVE-2026-56852: golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm: improper handling of input

containing invalid UTF-8 bytes can lead to infinite loop (bsc#1271994).

Changes for yq:

* v4.53.3:

* Add --ini-preserve-quotes flag for INI round-trip quote preservation.

* Fix: reset INI decoder state on init.

* Fix: decode properties array bracket paths.

* Fix: preserve floats with trailing zero when encoding YAML to JSON.

* Fix: JSON to TOML root scope and null handling.

* Fix: reset TOML decoder finished flag on Init for multi-doc evaluation.

* Fix: reset TOML decoder between files when evaluating all at once.

* Fix: preserve TOML inline table array scope.

* Fix: preserve empty TOML arrays in tables

* Fix: TOML encoder uses inline tables...

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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 15.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2026-3327=1

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP7-2026-3327=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* yq-debuginfo-4.53.3-150500.3.12.1

* yq-4.53.3-150500.3.12.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (noarch)

* yq-bash-completion-4.53.3-150500.3.12.1

* yq-zsh-completion-4.53.3-150500.3.12.1

* yq-fish-completion-4.53.3-150500.3.12.1

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP7 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* yq-debuginfo-4.53.3-150500.3.12.1

* yq-4.53.3-150500.3.12.1

References

* bsc#1267199

* bsc#1271994

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-39821.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-56852.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267199

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271994

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:3327-1
Release Date: 2026-07-28T09:18:18Z

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