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openSUSE 15.6: SUSE-SU-2025:01748-1 moderate: postgresql buffer overflow

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Calendar Grey May 29, 2025
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A new security notice has been issued for openSUSE and PostgreSQL, highlighting a moderate level of risk associated with the latest software patch.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for postgresql15 fixes the following issues:

Upgrade to 15.13:

* CVE-2025-4207: Fixed PostgreSQL GB18030 encoding validation can read one

byte past end of allocation for text that fails validation (bsc#1242931)

Changelog:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/15.13/

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security advisory moderate update threat postgresql openSUSE

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 15.6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-1748=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-1748=1

* Legacy Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Legacy-15-SP6-2025-1748=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* postgresql15-contrib-debuginfo-15.13-150600.16.17.1

* postgresql15-plperl-15.13-150600.16.17.1

* postgresql15-server-debuginfo-15.13-150600.16.17.1

* postgresql15-plpython-debuginfo-15.13-150600.16.17.1

* postgresql15-pltcl-debuginfo-15.13-150600.16.17.1

* postgresql15-llvmjit-devel-15.13-150600.16.17.1

* postgresql15-contrib-15.13-150600.16.17.1

* postgresql15-pltcl-15.13-150600.16.17.1

* postgresql15-server-devel-debuginfo-15.13-150600.16.17.1

* postgresql15-debuginfo-15.13-150600.16.17.1

* postgresql15-devel-debuginfo-15.13-150600.16.17.1

* postgresql15-15.13-150600.16.17.1

* postgresql15-plperl-debuginfo-15.13-150600.16.17.1

* postgresql15-plpython-15.13-150600.16.17.1

* postgresql15-debugsource-15.13-150600.16.17.1

* postgresql15-llvmjit-15.13-150600.16.17.1

* postgresql15-server-devel-15.13-150600.16.17.1

* postgresql15-devel-15.13-150600.16.17.1

* postgresql15-server-15.13-150600.16.17.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1242931

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4207.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1242931

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:01748-1
Release Date: 2025-05-29T12:42:25Z
Affected Products: * Legacy Module 15-SP6 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

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