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openSUSE: polkit Important Out-of-Bounds Write CVE-2025-7519 2025:02527-1

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Calendar Grey July 25, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A significant security patch for Fedora resolves a severe buffer overflow vulnerability impacting polkit.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for polkit fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2025-7519: Fixed a XML policy file with a large number of nested

elements that may lead to out-of-bounds write. (bsc#1246472)

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS important OpenSUSE polkit out-of-bounds write

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-2025-2527=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-2527=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2025-2527=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-2527=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2025-2527=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-ESPOS-2025-2527=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-2527=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-2527=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15...

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Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* polkit-121-150500.3.6.1

* polkit-devel-121-150500.3.6.1

* libpolkit-gobject-1-0-debuginfo-121-150500.3.6.1

* pkexec-debuginfo-121-150500.3.6.1

* pkexec-121-150500.3.6.1

* typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-121-150500.3.6.1

* polkit-devel-debuginfo-121-150500.3.6.1

* libpolkit-gobject-1-0-121-150500.3.6.1

* polkit-debuginfo-121-150500.3.6.1

* libpolkit-agent-1-0-121-150500.3.6.1

* polkit-debugsource-121-150500.3.6.1

* libpolkit-agent-1-0-debuginfo-121-150500.3.6.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (x86_64)

* libpolkit-agent-1-0-32bit-121-150500.3.6.1

* libpolkit-gobject-1-0-32bit-121-150500.3.6.1

* libpolkit-gobject-1-0-32bit-debuginfo-121-150500.3.6.1

* libpolkit-agent-1-0-32bit-debuginfo-121-150500.3.6.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (noarch)

* polkit-doc-121-150500.3.6.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64_ilp32)

* libpolkit-gobject-1-0-64bit-121-150500.3.6.1

* libpolkit-gobject-1-0-64bit-debuginfo-121-150500.3.6.1

* libpolkit-agent-1-0-64bit-121-150500.3.6.1

*...

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References

* bsc#1246472

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7519.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246472

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02527-1
Release Date: 2025-07-25T14:34:51Z
Affected Products: * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 * Basesystem Module 15-SP7 * openSUSE Leap 15.5 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 * 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 Micro 5.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS important OpenSUSE polkit out-of-bounds write

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