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openSUSE 15.6 kea Important Stack Overflow Fix 2026-1548-1

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Calendar Grey April 22, 2026
Dist Suse Esm H88
Critical SUSE kea security update resolves stack overflow issue, ensuring system stability and integrity. Update now!
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Summary

## This update for kea fixes the following issues: Update to release 2.6.5. Security issues fixed: * CVE-2026-3608: stack overflow error via specially crafted message to the kea-ctrl-agent, kea-dhcp-ddns, kea-dhcp4, or kea-dhcp6 daemons(bsc#1260380). Other updates and bugfixes: * A null dereference is now no longer possible when configuring the Control Agent with a socket that lacks the mandatory socket-name entry. * UNIX sockets are now created as group-writable. * Corrected an issue in logging configuration when parsing "syslog:". * Fixed crash when handling misconfigured global reservations. * Support for recent versions of Sphinx has been added. ## Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

References

* bsc#1260380

Cross-

* CVE-2026-3608

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2026-3608 ( SUSE ): 8.7

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

* CVE-2026-3608 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2026-3608 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products:

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 LTSS

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

##

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-3608.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1260380

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:1548-1
Release Date: 2026-04-22T09:40:51Z
Rating: important

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