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openSUSE: openssl-3 Important Key Size Issue CVE-2025-9230 2025:03441-1

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2025
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Critical update for openssl-3 on openSUSE. Fixes a significant security issue. Update immediately to protect systems.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for openssl-3 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).

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow OpenSSL important authentication OpenSUSE

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-2025-3441=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-ESPOS-2025-3441=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-3441=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-3441=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP5-2025-3441=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* libopenssl3-debuginfo-3.0.8-150500.5.54.1

* openssl-3-3.0.8-150500.5.54.1

* openssl-3-debugsource-3.0.8-150500.5.54.1

* openssl-3-debuginfo-3.0.8-150500.5.54.1

* libopenssl3-3.0.8-150500.5.54.1

* libopenssl-3-devel-3.0.8-150500.5.54.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (x86_64)

* libopenssl3-32bit-3.0.8-150500.5.54.1

* libopenssl-3-devel-32bit-3.0.8-150500.5.54.1

* libopenssl3-32bit-debuginfo-3.0.8-150500.5.54.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (noarch)

* openssl-3-doc-3.0.8-150500.5.54.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64_ilp32)

* libopenssl-3-devel-64bit-3.0.8-150500.5.54.1

* libopenssl3-64bit-debuginfo-3.0.8-150500.5.54.1

* libopenssl3-64bit-3.0.8-150500.5.54.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 (aarch64

x86_64)

* libopenssl3-debuginfo-3.0.8-150500.5.54.1

* openssl-3-3.0.8-150500.5.54.1

* openssl-3-debugsource-3.0.8-150500.5.54.1

* openssl-3-debuginfo-3.0.8-150500.5.54.1

* libopenssl3-3.0.8-150500.5.54.1

* libopenssl-3-devel-3.0.8-150500.5.54.1

*...

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

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:03441-1
Release Date: 2025-09-30T14:53:32Z
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 Server 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow OpenSSL important authentication OpenSUSE

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