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SUSE Salt Important DoS Security Update 2026-2257-1 CVE-2026-31958

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Calendar Grey June 3, 2026
Dist Suse Esm H88
Install the SUSE security update for salt to fix a denial of service issue and improve system stability.
An update that solves one vulnerability, contains one feature and has five security fixes can now be installed.

Summary

## This update for salt fixes the following issue: Security issues fixed: * CVE-2026-31958: python-tornado: parsing large multipart bodies with many parts can cause a denial of service (bsc#1259554). Other updates and bugfixes: * Use non vendored Tornado with Python 3.11 (bsc#1257583, bsc#1259700) * Harden Tornado from invalid HTTP reason phrases * Read full URI from ldap pillar config (bsc#1254900) * Make users with backslash work for `salt-ssh` (bsc#1254629). * Fixed `ansible.playbooks` `extra-vars` quoting (bsc#1257831), * Fixed `virtualenv` call in test helper to use proper Python version.

References

* bsc#1254629

* bsc#1254900

* bsc#1257583

* bsc#1257831

* bsc#1259554

* bsc#1259700

* jsc#MSQA-1052

Cross-

* CVE-2026-31958

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2026-31958 ( 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-2026-31958 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2026-31958 ( NVD ): 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/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-2026-31958 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7

* Systems Management Module 15-SP7

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:2257-1
Release Date: 2026-06-03T14:21:02Z
Rating: important

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