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openSUSE Leap 16.0 libsodium Moderate Cryptographic Bypass CVE-2025-15444

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2026
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Update for openSUSE fixes moderate severity security issue in libsodium. Ensure your system is secure and patched.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one bug fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for libsodium fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2025-15444: Fixed cryptographic bypass via improper elliptic curve point validation (bsc#1256070).

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-16.0-413=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate bug fix OpenSUSE cryptographic libsodium

Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

libsodium-devel-1.0.20-160000.3.1

libsodium26-1.0.20-160000.3.1

References

* bsc#1256070

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-15444.html

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:20399-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate bug fix OpenSUSE cryptographic libsodium

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