Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 1,394
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 1,394

SUSE 16.0 Erlang Important Update Fixes DoS CVE-2026-32144

suse
Calendar Grey April 28, 2026
Dist Suse Esm H88
Update resolves seven issues in Erlang for SUSE, including critical fixes to enhance application security and integrity.
An update that solves seven vulnerabilities and has one fix can now be installed.

Summary

## This update for erlang fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: * CVE-2026-21620: improper isolation and compartmentalization can lead to TFTP relative path traversal and remote arbitrary reads/writes (bsc#1258663). * CVE-2026-23941: improper handling of duplicate Content-Length headers in Erlang OTP can lead to HTTP request smuggling (bsc#1259687). * CVE-2026-23942: improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory in the SFTP server can lead to path traversal (bsc#1259681). * CVE-2026-23943: improper handling of highly compressed data in Erlang OTP ssh can lead to denial of service (bsc#1259682). * CVE-2026-28808: incorrect authorization can lead to unauthenticated access to protected CGI scripts (bsc#1261728).

References

* bsc#1258663

* bsc#1259681

* bsc#1259682

* bsc#1259687

* bsc#1261726

* bsc#1261728

* bsc#1261734

* bsc#1262288

Cross-

* CVE-2026-21620

* CVE-2026-23941

* CVE-2026-23942

* CVE-2026-23943

* CVE-2026-28808

* CVE-2026-28810

* CVE-2026-32144

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2026-21620 ( SUSE ): 7.6

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2026-21620 ( SUSE ): 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

* CVE-2026-21620 ( NVD ): 2.3

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

* CVE-2026-23941 ( SUSE ): 6.3

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:21374-1
Release Date: 2026-04-22T10:52:20Z
Rating: important

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Your message here