[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1144975: cockpit: CVE-2026-76235

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: cockpit
Version: 365-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/23633
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for cockpit.

CVE-2026-76235[0]:
| A memory leak flaw was found in cockpit-ws. The login page handler
| leaks a heap allocation on every unauthenticated request that
| carries a CockpitLang cookie, allowing a remote unauthenticated
| attacker to exhaust memory on the host and cause a denial of
| service.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-76235
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-76235
[1] https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/23633

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore