🛡️ openSUSE-SU-2026:21423-1 — jline3 (CVE-2026-56740 +1 more)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Security update for jline3

This update for jline3 fixes the following issues:

  • CVE-2026-56740: unauthenticated remote memory exhaustion via unbounded Telnet NEW-ENVIRON variables (bsc#1269021).
  • CVE-2026-56741: unauthenticated remote DoS via Unbounded Telnet NAWS Terminal Geometry (bsc#1270083).

Changes for jline3:

  • Update to upstream version 3.30.15

+ fix: guard regex matching against catastrophic backtracking

(ReDoS) (#2018, backport of #2012):

  • Adds SafeRegex utility with TimeoutCharSequence to enforce

wall-clock deadlines during regex matching

  • Fixes 8 locations across terminal, reader, and builtins

where user-controlled input could trigger catastrophic

backtracking

  • Addresses GHSA-r2xf-8xr9-62gw, GHSA-2v9w-34q6-wpqx,

GHSA-ph9c-7hw9-vhhw, GHSA-5q95-hrpc-m3w3

+ fix: backport security hardening (#1986, #1995):

  • Create persisted history file with owner-only permissions
  • Use exclusive create for extracted native library temp files

+ fix: warn on insecure permissions when history file created

concurrently

Affected software

openSUSE-SU-2026:21423-1 is recorded against 1 package.

  • jline3 (fixed in 3.30.15-160000.1.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 22 July 2026 and last revised on 24 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

bugzilla.suse.com (Report)
bugzilla.suse.com (Report)
www.suse.com (Web)
www.suse.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-22
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-24
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
jline3 3.30.15-160000.1.1

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