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openSUSE Leap 16.0 PackageKit Important Race Condition CVE-2026-41651

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Calendar Grey April 30, 2026
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An important security update for PackageKit in openSUSE fixes a race condition allowing arbitrary package installations.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one bug fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for PackageKit fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2026-41651: race condition allows for arbitrary RPM package installation as root and can lead to LPE

(bsc#1262220).

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-16.0-654=1

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory local privilege escalation important OpenSUSE PackageKit arbitrary installation

Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

PackageKit-1.2.8-160000.4.1

PackageKit-backend-dnf-1.2.8-160000.4.1

PackageKit-backend-zypp-1.2.8-160000.4.1

PackageKit-branding-upstream-1.2.8-160000.4.1

PackageKit-devel-1.2.8-160000.4.1

PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-1.2.8-160000.4.1

PackageKit-gtk3-module-1.2.8-160000.4.1

PackageKit-lang-1.2.8-160000.4.1

libpackagekit-glib2-18-1.2.8-160000.4.1

libpackagekit-glib2-devel-1.2.8-160000.4.1

typelib-1_0-PackageKitGlib-1_0-1.2.8-160000.4.1

References

* bsc#1262220

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-41651.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:20646-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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Topics Covered

security advisory local privilege escalation important OpenSUSE PackageKit arbitrary installation

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