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openSUSE: Critical Buffer Overflow Security Flaw in glibc1 2025:4504-2

opensuse
Calendar Grey December 23, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Update fixes critical issues in glib2 on openSUSE. Installation and patching steps available for various products.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description

This update for glib2 fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2025-14512: integer overflow in the GIO `escape_byte_string()` function

when processing malicious files or remote filesystem attribute values can

lead to denial-of-service (bsc#1254878).

* CVE-2025-14087: buffer underflow in the GVariant parser `bytestring_parse()`

and `string_parse()` functions when processing attacker-influenced data may

lead to crash or code execution (bsc#1254662).

* CVE-2025-13601: heap-based buffer overflow in the `g_escape_uri_string()`

function when processing strings with a large number of unacceptable

characters may lead to crash or code execution (bsc#1254297).

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Topics Covered

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Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-4504=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-4504=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-4504=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-4504=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-4504=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2025-4504=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-ESPOS-2025-4504=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-LTSS-2025-4504=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15...

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Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (noarch)

* glib2-lang-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* gio-branding-upstream-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* glib2-doc-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* libgobject-2_0-0-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* glib2-debugsource-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* libgio-2_0-0-debuginfo-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* glib2-tools-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* glib2-devel-debuginfo-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* glib2-tests-devel-debuginfo-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* libglib-2_0-0-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* libgmodule-2_0-0-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* libgmodule-2_0-0-debuginfo-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* libgio-2_0-0-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* libgobject-2_0-0-debuginfo-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* libgthread-2_0-0-debuginfo-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* glib2-tools-debuginfo-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* glib2-tests-devel-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* libgthread-2_0-0-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* glib2-devel-static-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* glib2-devel-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* libglib-2_0-0-debuginfo-2.70.5-150400.3.29.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)

*...

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References

* bsc#1254297

* bsc#1254662

* bsc#1254878

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-13601.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14087.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14512.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254297

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254662

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254878

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:4504-1
Release Date: 2025-12-22T16:30:41Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 * SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 * SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 LTS * SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 * SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 LTS * SUSE Manager Server 4.3 * SUSE Manager Server 4.3 LTS

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