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openSUSE Leap 15.3 glibc Important Security Update 2026-0896-1

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Calendar Grey March 13, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
SUSE updates glibc to address four important issues affecting systems with openSUSE. Immediate action recommended.
An update that solves four vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description

This update for glibc fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2026-0861: memalign: reinstate alignment overflow check (bsc#1256766)

* CVE-2026-0915: resolv: Fix NSS DNS backend for getnetbyaddr (bsc#1256822)

* CVE-2025-15281: posix: Reset wordexp_t fields with WRDE_REUSE (bsc#1257005)

* CVE-2025-8058: posix: Fix double-free after allocation failure in regcomp

(bsc#1246965)

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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 High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-LTSS-2026-896=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-ESPOS-2026-896=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-LTSS-2026-896=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP4-LTSS-2026-896=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP5-LTSS-2026-896=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP4-2026-896=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch...

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Package List

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 (aarch64

x86_64)

* glibc-locale-base-debuginfo-2.31-150300.98.1

* glibc-profile-2.31-150300.98.1

* glibc-utils-src-debugsource-2.31-150300.98.1

* glibc-devel-debuginfo-2.31-150300.98.1

* glibc-extra-debuginfo-2.31-150300.98.1

* glibc-locale-base-2.31-150300.98.1

* glibc-2.31-150300.98.1

* glibc-locale-2.31-150300.98.1

* glibc-extra-2.31-150300.98.1

* nscd-debuginfo-2.31-150300.98.1

* glibc-devel-static-2.31-150300.98.1

* glibc-debugsource-2.31-150300.98.1

* glibc-debuginfo-2.31-150300.98.1

* glibc-utils-debuginfo-2.31-150300.98.1

* nscd-2.31-150300.98.1

* glibc-utils-2.31-150300.98.1

* glibc-devel-2.31-150300.98.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 (noarch)

* glibc-lang-2.31-150300.98.1

* glibc-i18ndata-2.31-150300.98.1

* glibc-info-2.31-150300.98.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 (x86_64)

* glibc-devel-32bit-2.31-150300.98.1

* glibc-locale-base-32bit-2.31-150300.98.1

*...

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References

* bsc#1246965

* bsc#1256766

* bsc#1256822

* bsc#1257005

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-15281.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8058.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-0861.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-0915.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246965

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1256766

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1256822

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257005

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:0896-1
Release Date: 2026-03-13T15:25:51Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

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