Security update for haveged
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2026:2009-1 |
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| Release Date: | 2026-05-19T11:55:29Z |
| Rating: | important |
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An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.
Description:
This update for haveged fixes the following issue
- CVE-2026-41054: missing exit out of permission check could lead to root exploit (bsc#1264086).
Changes for haveged:
- Improvements on the linux kernel random subsystem have made move forward to socket communication within private network
- Fix "stop" of service, the daemon in foreground actually see daemon(7) for the rationale. Only "simple" (default) and the help of udev, as starting services while starved of entropy
- Add ppc64le support
- update to 1.8
- Correct additional run-time test aligment problems on mips.
- haveged 1.7a
- Correct VPATH issues and modify check target to support parallel builds and changes in automake 1.13 test harness.
- Remove all sysvinit compatibility.
- fix powerpc detection
- Current version does support ARM, remove the ExcludeArch need network and can use PrivateNetwork=yes
- Add online tests based on AIS-31
- Fix install target, move to bin and eliminate script if not daemon, now use sysv and systemd templates
- use -F with no arguments in haveged.service
- build with -fpie
- Use Service type "simple" in systemd unit
- fix build on ia64, s390, s390x
- fix ppc64 build present in old versions have been fixed in different ways.
- run spec cleaner
- Link with full RELRO (-Wl,-z,relro,-z,now)
- add systemd support
- Drop as much capabilitites as possible using libcap-ng
- I meant Enhances not Supplements
- Implement hack to start by default only in VMs
- use O_CLOEXEC on fds
- add proper Requires(pre)
- add a SUSE standard init script
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:
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openSUSE Leap 15.6
zypper in -t patch SUSE-2026-2009=1 -
Basesystem Module 15-SP7
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2026-2009=1 -
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 LTSS
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP6-LTSS-2026-2009=1 -
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP6-2026-2009=1
Package List:
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openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
- haveged-debugsource-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
- libhavege2-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
- libhavege2-debuginfo-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
- haveged-devel-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
- haveged-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
- haveged-debuginfo-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
-
Basesystem Module 15-SP7 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
- haveged-debugsource-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
- libhavege2-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
- libhavege2-debuginfo-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
- haveged-devel-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
- haveged-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
- haveged-debuginfo-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
-
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
- haveged-debugsource-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
- libhavege2-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
- libhavege2-debuginfo-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
- haveged-devel-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
- haveged-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
- haveged-debuginfo-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
-
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 (ppc64le x86_64)
- haveged-debugsource-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
- libhavege2-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
- libhavege2-debuginfo-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
- haveged-devel-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
- haveged-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1
- haveged-debuginfo-1.9.14-150600.11.6.1