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openSUSE 15.4: SUSE-SU-2025:0341-1 important: libxml2 use-after-free

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Calendar Grey February 3, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A significant patch for libxml2 has been released to rectify a severe use-after-free vulnerability on openSUSE systems.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for libxml2 fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2022-49043: Fixed a use-after-free in xmlXIncludeAddNode. (bsc#1236460)

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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 15.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-341=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-341=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-341=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-341=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-341=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-ESPOS-2025-341=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-LTSS-2025-341=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP4-LTSS-2025-341=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP...

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Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* libxml2-debugsource-2.9.14-150400.5.35.1

* libxml2-tools-2.9.14-150400.5.35.1

* python311-libxml2-2.9.14-150400.5.35.1

* libxml2-tools-debuginfo-2.9.14-150400.5.35.1

* libxml2-2-2.9.14-150400.5.35.1

* libxml2-python-debugsource-2.9.14-150400.5.35.1

* libxml2-2-debuginfo-2.9.14-150400.5.35.1

* libxml2-devel-2.9.14-150400.5.35.1

* python3-libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.14-150400.5.35.1

* python3-libxml2-2.9.14-150400.5.35.1

* python311-libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.14-150400.5.35.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)

* libxml2-2-32bit-debuginfo-2.9.14-150400.5.35.1

* libxml2-2-32bit-2.9.14-150400.5.35.1

* libxml2-devel-32bit-2.9.14-150400.5.35.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (noarch)

* libxml2-doc-2.9.14-150400.5.35.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64_ilp32)

* libxml2-2-64bit-debuginfo-2.9.14-150400.5.35.1

* libxml2-2-64bit-2.9.14-150400.5.35.1

* libxml2-devel-64bit-2.9.14-150400.5.35.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)

*...

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References

* bsc#1236460

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-49043.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1236460

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:0341-1
Release Date: 2025-02-03T16:33:21Z
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 Retail Branch Server 4.3 * SUSE Manager Server 4.3

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