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SUSE Safety Update August 2026 Alert on Major BLANK Pointer Nullification

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Calendar Grey April 2, 2026
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE expat security advisory April 2026 resolves critical issues including denial of service and NULL pointer errors.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Summary

## This update for expat fixes the following issues: * CVE-2026-32776: NULL pointer dereference when processing empty external parameter entities inside an entity declaration value (bsc#1259726). * CVE-2026-32777: denial of service due to infinite loop in DTD content parsing (bsc#1259711). * CVE-2026-32778: NULL pointer dereference in `setContext` on retry after an out-of-memory condition (bsc#1259729). ## Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2026-1166=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2026-1166=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service SuSE important null pointer expat

References

* bsc#1259711

* bsc#1259726

* bsc#1259729

Cross-

* CVE-2026-32776

* CVE-2026-32777

* CVE-2026-32778

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2026-32776 ( 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-2026-32776 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2026-32776 ( NVD ): 4.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

* CVE-2026-32776 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2026-32777 ( 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-2026-32777 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2026-32777 ( NVD ): 4.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

* CVE-2026-32777 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:1166-1
Release Date: 2026-04-02T01:08:59Z
Rating: important

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