Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 637
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 637

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

suse
Calendar Grey May 4, 2026
Dist Suse Esm H88
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).

References

* bsc#1262573

Cross-

* 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

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

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

Get the latest News and Insights

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

Related News

Your message here