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openSUSE Important Kernel Update 2026-1676-1 CVE-2026-31431

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Calendar Grey May 4, 2026
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Critical update for important kernel vulnerability in openSUSE, ensuring better security for the system.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Summary

## The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 RT kernel was updated to fix one security issue The following security issue was fixed: * CVE-2026-31431: The copy.fail security issue is fixed by revert to operating out-of-place in algif_aead (bsc#1262573).

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security advisory security issue DoS important Linux kernel OpenSUSE

References

* bsc#1262573

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* CVE-2026-31431

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2026-31431 ( SUSE ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2026-31431 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

* openSUSE Leap 15.5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

##

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-31431.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1262573

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:1676-1
Release Date: 2026-05-02T07:19:34Z
Rating: important

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