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openSUSE Leap 16.0 Podman Important Security Update 2026-20072-1

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Calendar Grey January 25, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Update for openSUSE podman resolves vulnerabilities to prevent container breakouts and file overwrites, ensuring security.
An update that solves 4 vulnerabilities and has 2 bug fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for podman fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2025-31133,CVE-2025-52565,CVE-2025-52881: container breakouts by bypassing runc's restrictions for writing to arbitrary /proc files (bsc#1252376).

- CVE-2025-9566: kube play command may overwrite host files (bsc#1249154).

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-16.0-161=1

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory file overwrite important OpenSUSE Podman container escape

Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

podman-5.4.2-160000.3.1

podman-docker-5.4.2-160000.3.1

podman-remote-5.4.2-160000.3.1

podmansh-5.4.2-160000.3.1

References

* bsc#1249154

* bsc#1252376

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-31133.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-52565.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-52881.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9566.html

Severity
important
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:20072-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory file overwrite important OpenSUSE Podman container escape

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