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openSUSE Leap: 2025:02049-1 important: python311 Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey June 20, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A critical vulnerability in Python 3.11 affects openSUSE Leap users, risking data breaches and system integrity; update Python to secure your system
An update that solves five vulnerabilities and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for python311 fixes the following issues:

python311 was updated from version 3.11.10 to 3.11.13:

* Security issues fixed:

* CVE-2025-4516: Fixed blocking DecodeError handling vulnerability, which

could lead to DoS (bsc#1243273).

* CVE-2024-12718, CVE-2025-4138, CVE-2025-4330, CVE-2025-4517: Fixed multiple

issues that allowed tarfile extraction filters to be bypassed using crafted

symlinks and hard links (bsc#1244056, bsc#1244059, bsc#1244060, bsc#1244032)

* Other bugs fixed:

* Improved handling of system call failures that OpenSSL reports (bsc#1241067)

* Disable GC during thread operations to prevent deadlocks.

* Fixed a potential denial of service vulnerability in the imaplib module.

* Fixed bugs in the in the folding of rfc2047 encoded-words and in the folding

of quoted strings when flattening an email message using a modern email

policy.

* Fixed parsing long IPv6 addresses with embedded IPv4 address.

* Fixed...

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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:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-2049=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP4-LTSS-2025-2049=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-2049=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP4-2025-2049=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP5-2025-2049=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-2049=1

* Public Cloud Module 15-SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Public-Cloud-15-SP4-2025-2049=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4

zypper in...

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Package List

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5 (aarch64

x86_64)

* python311-core-debugsource-3.11.13-150400.9.60.1

* python311-3.11.13-150400.9.60.1

* libpython3_11-1_0-3.11.13-150400.9.60.1

* python311-debuginfo-3.11.13-150400.9.60.1

* python311-tools-3.11.13-150400.9.60.1

* python311-devel-3.11.13-150400.9.60.1

* python311-dbm-debuginfo-3.11.13-150400.9.60.1

* python311-curses-3.11.13-150400.9.60.1

* python311-curses-debuginfo-3.11.13-150400.9.60.1

* python311-base-3.11.13-150400.9.60.1

* python311-dbm-3.11.13-150400.9.60.1

* python311-debugsource-3.11.13-150400.9.60.1

* python311-doc-devhelp-3.11.13-150400.9.60.1

* python311-base-debuginfo-3.11.13-150400.9.60.1

* python311-idle-3.11.13-150400.9.60.1

* python311-doc-3.11.13-150400.9.60.1

* python311-tk-debuginfo-3.11.13-150400.9.60.1

* python311-tk-3.11.13-150400.9.60.1

* libpython3_11-1_0-debuginfo-3.11.13-150400.9.60.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

*...

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References

* bsc#1241067

* bsc#1243273

* bsc#1244032

* bsc#1244056

* bsc#1244059

* bsc#1244060

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12718.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4138.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4330.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4516.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4517.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1241067

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243273

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244032

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244056

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244059

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244060

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02049-1
Release Date: 2025-06-20T12:41:36Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.4 * Public Cloud Module 15-SP4 * 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 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 Retail Branch Server 4.3 * SUSE Manager Server 4.3

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