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openSUSE Leap 15.6: Important Firebird Denial of Service CVE-2025-54989

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Calendar Grey August 27, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Essential patch for openSUSE Leap addressing severe firebird vulnerability that could lead to denial-of-service exploitation.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for firebird fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2025-54989: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in XDR message parsing

leading to denial-of-service (ZDI-CAN-26486, bsc#1248143)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service patch important OpenSUSE firebird

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-15.6-2025-2991=1

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP6-2025-2991=1

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP7-2025-2991=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* firebird-utils-debuginfo-3.0.4.33054-150200.3.3.1

* libfbclient2-3.0.4.33054-150200.3.3.1

* libib_util-debuginfo-3.0.4.33054-150200.3.3.1

* firebird-debugsource-3.0.4.33054-150200.3.3.1

* firebird-server-3.0.4.33054-150200.3.3.1

* firebird-debuginfo-3.0.4.33054-150200.3.3.1

* firebird-examples-3.0.4.33054-150200.3.3.1

* firebird-utils-3.0.4.33054-150200.3.3.1

* libib_util-devel-3.0.4.33054-150200.3.3.1

* firebird-server-debuginfo-3.0.4.33054-150200.3.3.1

* libfbclient2-debuginfo-3.0.4.33054-150200.3.3.1

* libfbclient-devel-3.0.4.33054-150200.3.3.1

* libib_util-3.0.4.33054-150200.3.3.1

* firebird-3.0.4.33054-150200.3.3.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (noarch)

* firebird-doc-3.0.4.33054-150200.3.3.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (x86_64)

* libib_util-32bit-3.0.4.33054-150200.3.3.1

* libib_util-32bit-debuginfo-3.0.4.33054-150200.3.3.1

* libfbclient2-32bit-debuginfo-3.0.4.33054-150200.3.3.1

* libfbclient2-32bit-3.0.4.33054-150200.3.3.1

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP6 (aarch64...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1248143

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-54989.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248143

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02991-1
Release Date: 2025-08-27T11:56:44Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 * SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP6 * SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP7

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