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openSUSE: glib2 Moderate Memory Corruption Fix CVE-2025-4373 2025:02375-1

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Calendar Grey July 18, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Significant notice regarding glib2 addresses potential integer overflow and memory corruption vulnerabilities on openSUSE systems. Suggested patch is ready for implementation.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for glib2 fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2025-4373: integer overflow in the `g_string_insert_unichar()` function

can lead to buffer underwrite and memory corruption (bsc#1242844).

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-2025-2375=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-2375=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-2375=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-2375=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-2375=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2025-2375=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (noarch)

* gio-branding-upstream-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* glib2-lang-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* libgio-2_0-0-debuginfo-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* glib2-tools-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* glib2-tests-devel-debuginfo-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* glib2-tools-debuginfo-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* libglib-2_0-0-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* libgio-2_0-0-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* libgmodule-2_0-0-debuginfo-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* libgobject-2_0-0-debuginfo-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* glib2-tests-devel-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* glib2-doc-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* libgmodule-2_0-0-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* libglib-2_0-0-debuginfo-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* libgobject-2_0-0-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* libgthread-2_0-0-debuginfo-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* glib2-devel-debuginfo-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* libgthread-2_0-0-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* glib2-devel-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* glib2-devel-static-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* glib2-debugsource-2.70.5-150400.3.23.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1242844

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4373.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1242844

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02375-1
Release Date: 2025-07-18T13:16:28Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.4 * 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

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