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openSUSE Leap 15.5: Security Advisory SUSE-SU-2025:03438-1 Important Fix

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An important update for openSUSE addresses CVE-2025-9230 affecting openssl-1_1, improving security and stability.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for openssl-1_1 fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2025-9230: incorrect check of key size can lead to out-of-bounds read

and write in RFC 3211 KEK unwrap (bsc#1250232).

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Topics Covered

security advisory important out-of-bounds OpenSUSE openssl-1_1 cve-2025-9230

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-2025-3438=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2025-3438=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-ESPOS-2025-3438=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-3438=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-3438=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP5-2025-3438=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* libopenssl1_1-1.1.1l-150500.17.43.1

* libopenssl1_1-debuginfo-1.1.1l-150500.17.43.1

* openssl-1_1-debugsource-1.1.1l-150500.17.43.1

* libopenssl-1_1-devel-1.1.1l-150500.17.43.1

* openssl-1_1-1.1.1l-150500.17.43.1

* libopenssl1_1-hmac-1.1.1l-150500.17.43.1

* openssl-1_1-debuginfo-1.1.1l-150500.17.43.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (x86_64)

* libopenssl1_1-32bit-1.1.1l-150500.17.43.1

* libopenssl-1_1-devel-32bit-1.1.1l-150500.17.43.1

* libopenssl1_1-32bit-debuginfo-1.1.1l-150500.17.43.1

* libopenssl1_1-hmac-32bit-1.1.1l-150500.17.43.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (noarch)

* openssl-1_1-doc-1.1.1l-150500.17.43.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64_ilp32)

* libopenssl1_1-64bit-1.1.1l-150500.17.43.1

* libopenssl1_1-hmac-64bit-1.1.1l-150500.17.43.1

* libopenssl1_1-64bit-debuginfo-1.1.1l-150500.17.43.1

* libopenssl-1_1-devel-64bit-1.1.1l-150500.17.43.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* libopenssl1_1-1.1.1l-150500.17.43.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1250232

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9230.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250232

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:03438-1
Release Date: 2025-09-30T14:37:53Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.5 * 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 Server 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

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security advisory important out-of-bounds OpenSUSE openssl-1_1 cve-2025-9230

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