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Fedora 42: open62541 Critical Security Issue MemLeak Fix 2025-c2afaee8fe

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Calendar Grey August 14, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 42 brings major upgrades to the open62541 library, now version 1.4.13, addressing key memory leak issues and enhancing security measures
Changes in v1.4.13: server: Cover edge-case in the EventFilter validation client: Cover edge-case in the UserTokenPolicy validation arch: Process delayed callbacks immediately via ...

Summary

open62541 is a C-based library (linking with C++ projects is possible)

with all necessary tools to implement dedicated OPC UA clients and servers,

or to integrate OPC UA-based communication into existing applications.

Update Information:

Changes in v1.4.13: server: Cover edge-case in the EventFilter validation client: Cover edge-case in the UserTokenPolicy validation arch: Process delayed callbacks immediately via the nextCyclicTime plugins: Fixed memleak for scandir in OpenSSL SecurityPolicies tools: Fixed parsing of ByteString-NodeIds in the Nodeset compiler tools: Fix build-system edge-case in the Nodeset-Injector tools: Fixed edge-case for parsing of LocalizedText in the Nodeset compiler Changes in v1.4.12: core: Added QNX support core: Fix use of null pointer in certificate verification arch: Fix busy loop in the EventLoop client: Check if the "CreatedAt" timestamp of the SecurityToken client: Fix potential infinite loop in client connect server: Fix duplicate entries in discoveryUrls list server: Fix server lock state while copying out statistics deps: Update musl time methods to avoid name clashes plugin: Fix length calculation in mbedtls CreateCertificate ci: Run linux CI in a Ubuntu contai...

Change Log

* Tue Aug 5 2025 Peter Robinson - 1.4.13-1 - Update to 1.4.13 * Thu Jul 24 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.4.11.1-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2366662 - open62541-1.4.13 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2366662 [ 2 ] Bug #2381085 - open62541: FTBFS with change proposal CMake: Use ninja generator by default https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2381085

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-c2afaee8fe' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: open62541
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 1.4.13
Release: 1.fc42
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Summary: OPC UA implementation

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