SUSE Curl Moderate Password Leak and Auth Issues Vuln 2026-23350

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## This update for curl fixes the following issues: * CVE-2026-5773: wrong reuse of SMB connection (bsc#1262633). * CVE-2026-7168: cross-proxy Digest auth state leak (bsc#1263440). * CVE-2026-8926: password leak with netrc and user in URL (bsc#1268412). Changes for curl: * Call http_size() first to prioritize Transfer-Encoding: chunked over a zero Content-Length empty body check (bsc#1264971) ## 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 Micro 6.1 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.1-687=1 ## Package List: * SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64) * curl-8.14.1-slfo.1.1_9.1 * curl-debuginfo-8.14.1-slfo.1.1_9.1

## This update for curl fixes the following issues: * CVE-2026-5773: wrong reuse of SMB connection (bsc#1262633). * CVE-2026-7168: cross-proxy Digest auth state leak (bsc#1263440). * CVE-2026-8926: password leak with netrc and user in URL (bsc#1268412). Changes for curl: * Call http_size() first to prioritize Transfer-Encoding: chunked over a zero Content-Length empty body check (bsc#1264971) ## 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 Micro 6.1 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.1-687=1 ## Package List: * SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64) * curl-8.14.1-slfo.1.1_9.1 * curl-debuginfo-8.14.1-slfo.1.1_9.1

* CVE-2026-5773 ( SUSE ): 6.3

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

* CVE-2026-5773 ( SUSE ): 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

* CVE-2026-5773 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

* CVE-2026-5773 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

* CVE-2026-7168 ( SUSE ): 6.0

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

* CVE-2026-7168 ( SUSE ): 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

* CVE-2026-7168 ( NVD ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

* CVE-2026-7168 ( NVD ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:23350-1 Release Date: 2026-08-26T15:36:08Z Rating: moderate

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