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openSUSE 15.3: SUSE-SU-2025:01718-1 important: buffer overflow fix

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Calendar Grey May 28, 2025
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Crucial security patch for gstreamer-plugins-bad addressing a critical buffer overflow vulnerability that may allow for remote code execution.
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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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow important openSUSE gstreamer RCE

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 15.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-1718=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-1718=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-1718=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP3-2025-1718=1

* SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1

zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-7.1-2025-1718=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* libgsturidownloader-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.16.3-150300.9.21.1

* libgstplayer-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.16.3-150300.9.21.1

* gstreamer-plugins-bad-doc-1.16.3-150300.9.21.1

* gstreamer-plugins-bad-1.16.3-150300.9.21.1

* gstreamer-plugins-bad-debuginfo-1.16.3-150300.9.21.1

* libgstisoff-1_0-0-1.16.3-150300.9.21.1

* libgstinsertbin-1_0-0-1.16.3-150300.9.21.1

* libgstphotography-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.16.3-150300.9.21.1

* libgstmpegts-1_0-0-1.16.3-150300.9.21.1

* libgstsctp-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.16.3-150300.9.21.1

* libgstinsertbin-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.16.3-150300.9.21.1

* libgstisoff-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.16.3-150300.9.21.1

* libgstcodecparsers-1_0-0-1.16.3-150300.9.21.1

* gstreamer-plugins-bad-debugsource-1.16.3-150300.9.21.1

* typelib-1_0-GstPlayer-1_0-1.16.3-150300.9.21.1

* libgstbadaudio-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.16.3-150300.9.21.1

* libgstwayland-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.16.3-150300.9.21.1

* libgstadaptivedemux-1_0-0-debuginfo-1.16.3-150300.9.21.1

*...

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-2025:01718-1
Release Date: 2025-05-27T12:53:49Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.3 * SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

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