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openSUSE Leap 15.4: libxml2 Important Heap Corruption CVE-2025-7425

opensuse
Calendar Grey August 4, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Patch release for libxml2 that resolves critical vulnerabilities, notably heap buffer overflow and related threats affecting multiple operating systems.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for libxml2 fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2025-7425: Fixed heap Use-After-Free in libxslt caused by atype

corruption in xmlAttrPtr (bsc#1246296)

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Topics Covered

security advisory heap corruption important libxml2 OpenSUSE use-after-free

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 Manager Proxy 4.3 LTS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-4.3-LTS-2025-2620=1

* SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 LTS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Retail-Branch-

Server-4.3-LTS-2025-2620=1

* SUSE Manager Server 4.3 LTS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Server-4.3-LTS-2025-2620=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-2620=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-2620=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-2620=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-2620=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-2620=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing...

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Package List

* SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 LTS (x86_64)

* python3-libxml2-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

* libxml2-2-32bit-debuginfo-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

* libxml2-2-debuginfo-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

* libxml2-2-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

* libxml2-2-32bit-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

* libxml2-devel-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

* libxml2-tools-debuginfo-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

* libxml2-tools-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

* libxml2-debugsource-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

* python3-libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

* SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 LTS (x86_64)

* python3-libxml2-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

* libxml2-2-32bit-debuginfo-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

* libxml2-2-debuginfo-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

* libxml2-2-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

* libxml2-2-32bit-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

* libxml2-devel-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

* libxml2-tools-debuginfo-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

* libxml2-tools-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

* libxml2-debugsource-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

* python3-libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

* SUSE Manager Server 4.3 LTS (ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* python3-libxml2-2.9.14-150400.5.47.1

*...

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References

* bsc#1246296

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7425.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246296

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
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Critical

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02620-1
Release Date: 2025-08-04T07:43:07Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 * SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 * SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 LTS * SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 * SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 LTS * SUSE Manager Server 4.3 * SUSE Manager Server 4.3 LTS

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Topics Covered

security advisory heap corruption important libxml2 OpenSUSE use-after-free

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