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SUSE Wicked Important Indirect Remote Shell Injection Vuln 2026-3840

SUSE Wicked Important Indirect Remote Shell Injection Vuln 2026-3840

Linuxsecurity •LinuxSecurity Advisories • August 28, 2026

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## This update for wicked fixes the following issues: Update to version 0.6.79. * CVE-2026-44932: indirect remote shell command injection due to insufficient sanitization of DHCP options written to `/run/wicked/leaseinfo.*` files (bsc#1265221). * CVE-2026-71401: out-of-bounds read due to IP length underflow in checksum handling of DHCPv4 capture parsing (bsc#1274627). * CVE-2026-71402: out-of-bounds read due to DHCP option reader being extended beyond provided allocation in DHCPv4 capture parsing (bsc#1274627). Changes for wicked: * Version 0.6.79: * Fix to escape single-quotes in leaseinfo dump output used by the `wicked test dhcp4` and `wicked test dhcp6` and written to the `/run/wicked/leaseinfo.*` files, e.g. to pass them to `netconfig`.

## This update for wicked fixes the following issues: Update to version 0.6.79. * CVE-2026-44932: indirect remote shell command injection due to insufficient sanitization of DHCP options written to `/run/wicked/leaseinfo.*` files (bsc#1265221). * CVE-2026-71401: out-of-bounds read due to IP length underflow in checksum handling of DHCPv4 capture parsing (bsc#1274627). * CVE-2026-71402: out-of-bounds read due to DHCP option reader being extended beyond provided allocation in DHCPv4 capture parsing (bsc#1274627). Changes for wicked: * Version 0.6.79: * Fix to escape single-quotes in leaseinfo dump output used by the `wicked test dhcp4` and `wicked test dhcp6` and written to the `/run/wicked/leaseinfo.*` files, e.g. to pass them to `netconfig`.

* CVE-2026-44932 ( SUSE ): 5.8

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

* CVE-2026-44932 ( SUSE ): 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2026-44932 ( NVD ): 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2026-71401 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2026-71401 ( NVD ): 5.3

CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/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-2026-71402 ( SUSE ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

* CVE-2026-71402 ( NVD ): 5.3

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:3840-1 Release Date: 2026-08-27T12:21:23Z Rating: important

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