{"id":"openSUSE-SU-2026:21849-1","summary":"Security update for kimi-code","details":"This update for kimi-code fixes the following issues:\n\nChanges in kimi-code:\n\nUpdate to version 0.42.0:\n\n  * Add an experimental Updates panel with paginated progress\n    messages from the main agent and subagents, enabled with\n    KIMI_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_NOTIFY_USER=1\n  * Turn the subagent model pool, Remote Control and the minidb\n    session-index read model with the global search worker always\n    on; their experimental flags and opt-out variables are gone,\n    search persistence is now tuned via the [database] section\n  * Give tower worker and reviewer briefings the full mission\n    context, follow the subagent timeout for tower agents, and\n    show each background agent's model in /tasks\n  * Retrieve file search matches beyond the first 100 results,\n    accept HEIC, HEIF and BMP images with Kimi-served models,\n    and warn in kimi -p when project MCP servers are skipped in\n    an untrusted folder\n  * Read files with configurable character limits and resumable\n    long-line reads, decode malformed UTF-16 with a warning, and\n    preserve image and video filenames in session history\n  * Rework the dashboard: deletable sessions, reorderable media\n    rail, collapsed tool calls revealed with Ctrl-O, and less\n    jank on long conversations and session reloads\n\nUpdate to version 0.41.0:\n\n  * Add experimental tower mode for multi-agent orchestration and\n    Remote Control for reaching a local web session remotely\n  * Add the WaitFor tool so the agent can wait for a background\n    task inside the current turn, and an optional fork parameter\n    that starts a subagent from a snapshot of the caller's history\n  * Support two OAuth login methods, kimi.ai and kimi.com, and\n    activate several skills in one prompt\n  * Enable the subagent model pool in every launch mode by default\n    and make turn-level file history unconditional\n  * Add a dangerous-command guard that always asks before shutdown,\n    reboot or rm -rf in manual and YOLO permission modes, disabled\n    with [permission] dangerous_command_guard; auto mode never\n    blocks\n  * Remove kimi web --allow-remote-terminals; PTY terminal routes\n    are served on loopback binds only\n  * Require Edit and Write to read a file first, and reject a write\n    when the file changed on disk since that read\n  * Rework the bundled web dashboard: multi-tab right sidebar,\n    Open/Done/Workspaces session tabs, a plugin marketplace panel\n    and mobile bottom sheets\n  * ... see upstream's release notes for the full list\n- Vendor the runtime dependencies upstream stopped inlining in\n  0.39.0:\n  * Add ws, qrcode and qrcode's own pngjs and dijkstrajs as\n    sources, installed into the package's private node_modules\n  * Unpack the npm tarball directly instead of running npm install,\n    which would resolve the new dependencies against the registry\n    and pull in qrcode's CLI-only yargs tree\n  * Declare the vendored trees with Provides: bundled(...)\n- CVE-2026-48779: ws denial of service from a high volume of tiny\n  WebSocket fragments; the ws inlined in the old bundle predated\n  the 8.21.0 fix, the vendored ws is 8.21.3 (boo#1268927)\n- CVE-2026-45736: ws uninitialized memory disclosure via\n  websocket.close() with a TypedArray, fixed by the same ws version\n  (boo#1269951)\n- Load the compiled node-pty addon during the build check as well\n","modified":"2026-09-15T17:00:06.110660287Z","published":"2026-09-14T13:20:22Z","related":["CVE-2026-45736","CVE-2026-48779"],"upstream":["CVE-2026-45736","CVE-2026-48779"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1268927"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1269951"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-45736"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-48779"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"kimi-code","ecosystem":"openSUSE:Leap 16.0","purl":"pkg:rpm/opensuse/kimi-code&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.42.0-bp160.1.1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"kimi-code":"0.42.0-bp160.1.1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/osv/openSUSE-SU-2026:21849-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}