SUSE alert openSUSE-SU-2026:21225-1 (rmt-server)

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openSUSE-SU-2026:21225-1: important: Security update for rmt-server
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openSUSE security update: security update for rmt-server
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:21225-1
Rating: important
References:

  * bsc#1246976
  * bsc#1248510
  * bsc#1248869
  * bsc#1251937
  * bsc#1253146
  * bsc#1253147
  * bsc#1253953
  * bsc#1256826
  * bsc#1256883
  * bsc#1257133
  * bsc#1265369



Cross-References:

  * CVE-2026-42256



CVSS scores:

  * CVE-2026-42256 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  * CVE-2026-42256 ( 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

Affected Products:

         openSUSE Leap 16.0

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An update that solves one vulnerability and has 11 bug fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for rmt-server fixes the following issue

Update to 3.0.0:

- CVE-2026-42256: net-imap: hostile server can perform a DoS on client authenticating a connection
with SCRAM-SHA1 or
  SCRAM-SHA2 (bsc#1265369).

Changes for rmt-server:

- Version 3.0.0
 * Security fix: Remove unused ActionMailer/ActionMailbox components to
 eliminate CVE-2026-42256 (bsc#1265369)
 * Split Rails meta-gem into individual components for better security control
- Version 2.26
 * Add support for processing, storing, and syncing system profiles (jsc#TEL-265)
- Version 2.25
 * fix rmt-cli list and purge commands for large data (bsc#1253146 and bsc#1253147)
 * Fix mirroring of SLE16 NVIDIA-GPU-Compute-Toolkit-CUDA repo (bsc#1256826)
 * Support for new redirect_repo_hosts config, to exclude some repo hosts
 from mirroring, and send clients directly there (jsc#SCC-452)
 * rmt-server-pubcloud
 * Clearer error message (bsc#1256883)
 * Handle zypper response when data exporter raises an error (bsc#1257133)
 * Add Valkey + Sidekiq for async processing
 * Enable mirroring xz compressed repositories (bsc#1246976)
 * Rack 2.2.20 security update (bsc#1253953, bsc#1251937)
 * Drop some de-published products from RMT
 * Include Live-Patching for SLES 15.X (jsc#PCT-630)
 * Handle only one data exporter (bsc#1248869)
 * Do not decode instance data from db to access registry (bsc#1248510)
 * Handle instance verification exceptions


Patch instructions:

   To install this openSUSE security update use the suse recommended installation methods
   like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
   Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 16.0

   zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-16.0-1154=1

Package List:

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

  ansible-rmt-server-3.0.0-160000.1.1
  rmt-server-3.0.0-160000.1.1
  rmt-server-config-3.0.0-160000.1.1
  rmt-server-pubcloud-3.0.0-160000.1.1

References:

  * https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42256.html