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openSUSE 15.5: SUSE-SU-2025:01717-1 critical: gstreamer RCE issue

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Calendar Grey May 28, 2025
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Important update for gstreamer-plugins-good addresses remote code execution vulnerabilities, safeguarding system stability on Fedora.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for gstreamer-plugins-bad fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2025-3887: Fixed possible RCE vulnerability via buffer overflow in H265

Codec Parsing (bsc#1242809).

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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 15.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-1717=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-ESPOS-2025-1717=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-1717=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-1717=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP5-2025-1717=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* gstreamer-plugins-bad-chromaprint-1.22.0-150500.3.28.1

* libgstmpegts-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.22.0-150500.3.28.1

* libgstvulkan-1_0-0-1.22.0-150500.3.28.1

* gstreamer-plugins-bad-1.22.0-150500.3.28.1

* libgstplay-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.22.0-150500.3.28.1

* libgstinsertbin-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.22.0-150500.3.28.1

* libgsttranscoder-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.22.0-150500.3.28.1

* libgstwebrtcnice-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.22.0-150500.3.28.1

* typelib-1_0-GstVa-1_0-1.22.0-150500.3.28.1

* libgstsctp-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.22.0-150500.3.28.1

* libgstwebrtc-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.22.0-150500.3.28.1

* typelib-1_0-GstVulkan-1_0-1.22.0-150500.3.28.1

* typelib-1_0-GstVulkanXCB-1_0-1.22.0-150500.3.28.1

* gstreamer-plugins-bad-debuginfo-1.22.0-150500.3.28.1

* libgsturidownloader-1_0-0-1.22.0-150500.3.28.1

* libgstisoff-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.22.0-150500.3.28.1

* libgstwebrtcnice-1_0-0-1.22.0-150500.3.28.1

* libgstadaptivedemux-1_0-0-1.22.0-150500.3.28.1

* typelib-1_0-GstPlayer-1_0-1.22.0-150500.3.28.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1242809

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-3887.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1242809

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:01717-1
Release Date: 2025-05-27T12:51:35Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

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