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openSUSE: libxml2 Important Heap Corruption CVE-2025-7425 Advisory

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Calendar Grey August 4, 2025
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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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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 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-2621=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-2621=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-2621=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP3-2025-2621=1

* SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1

zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-7.1-2025-2621=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.1-2025-2621=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2025-2621=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2025-2621=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* python3-libxml2-python-debuginfo-2.9.7-150000.3.85.1

* python3-libxml2-python-2.9.7-150000.3.85.1

* python-libxml2-python-debugsource-2.9.7-150000.3.85.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 (aarch64

x86_64)

* python3-libxml2-python-debuginfo-2.9.7-150000.3.85.1

* libxml2-tools-2.9.7-150000.3.85.1

* libxml2-2-2.9.7-150000.3.85.1

* libxml2-tools-debuginfo-2.9.7-150000.3.85.1

* libxml2-debugsource-2.9.7-150000.3.85.1

* libxml2-2-debuginfo-2.9.7-150000.3.85.1

* libxml2-devel-2.9.7-150000.3.85.1

* python-libxml2-python-debugsource-2.9.7-150000.3.85.1

* python3-libxml2-python-2.9.7-150000.3.85.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 (x86_64)

* libxml2-2-32bit-2.9.7-150000.3.85.1

* libxml2-2-32bit-debuginfo-2.9.7-150000.3.85.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* python3-libxml2-python-debuginfo-2.9.7-150000.3.85.1

* libxml2-tools-2.9.7-150000.3.85.1

*...

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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

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02621-1
Release Date: 2025-08-04T07:44:00Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

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