{"id":"SUSE-SU-2026:2008-1","summary":"Security update for haveged","details":"This update for haveged fixes the following issue\n\n- CVE-2026-41054: missing exit out of permission check could lead to root exploit (bsc#1264086).\n\nChanges for haveged:\n\n- Improvements on the linux kernel random subsystem have made\n move forward to socket communication within private network\n- Fix 'stop' of service, the daemon in foreground actually\n see daemon(7) for the rationale. Only 'simple' (default) and\n the help of udev, as starting services while starved of entropy\n- Add ppc64le support\n- update to 1.8\n * Correct additional run-time test aligment problems on mips.\n- haveged 1.7a\n* Correct VPATH issues and modify check target to support\nparallel builds and changes in automake 1.13 test harness.\n- Remove all sysvinit compatibility.\n- fix powerpc detection \n- Current version does support ARM, remove the ExcludeArch\n need network and can use PrivateNetwork=yes\n * Add online tests based on AIS-31\n * Fix install target, move to bin and eliminate script if not daemon, now use sysv and systemd templates\n- use -F with no arguments in haveged.service\n- build with -fpie\n- Use Service type 'simple' in systemd unit\n- fix build on ia64, s390, s390x\n- fix ppc64 build\n present in old versions have been fixed in different ways.\n- run spec cleaner\n- Link with full RELRO (-Wl,-z,relro,-z,now)\n- add systemd support\n- Drop as much capabilitites as possible using libcap-ng\n- I meant Enhances not Supplements\n- Implement hack to start by default only in VMs\n- use O_CLOEXEC on fds\n- add proper Requires(pre)\n- add a SUSE standard init script\n","modified":"2026-05-20T08:00:14.975640993Z","published":"2026-05-19T11:55:01Z","related":["CVE-2026-41054"],"upstream":["CVE-2026-41054"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2026/suse-su-20262008-1/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1264086"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-41054"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}