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openSUSE Leap 15.6: openssl-3 Important Out-of-Bounds Read CVE-2025-9230

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An important security update for openssl-3 resolves a critical out-of-bounds read vulnerability. Update now!
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).

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS important out-of-bounds OpenSUSE openssl-3

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 SUSE-2025-3442=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-3442=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-3442=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* libopenssl-3-fips-provider-debuginfo-3.1.4-150600.5.39.1

* openssl-3-3.1.4-150600.5.39.1

* libopenssl3-debuginfo-3.1.4-150600.5.39.1

* openssl-3-debuginfo-3.1.4-150600.5.39.1

* libopenssl-3-devel-3.1.4-150600.5.39.1

* openssl-3-debugsource-3.1.4-150600.5.39.1

* libopenssl3-3.1.4-150600.5.39.1

* libopenssl-3-fips-provider-3.1.4-150600.5.39.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (x86_64)

* libopenssl3-32bit-3.1.4-150600.5.39.1

* libopenssl-3-fips-provider-32bit-3.1.4-150600.5.39.1

* libopenssl-3-devel-32bit-3.1.4-150600.5.39.1

* libopenssl-3-fips-provider-32bit-debuginfo-3.1.4-150600.5.39.1

* libopenssl3-32bit-debuginfo-3.1.4-150600.5.39.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (noarch)

* openssl-3-doc-3.1.4-150600.5.39.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64_ilp32)

* libopenssl-3-fips-provider-64bit-debuginfo-3.1.4-150600.5.39.1

* libopenssl3-64bit-debuginfo-3.1.4-150600.5.39.1

* libopenssl-3-devel-64bit-3.1.4-150600.5.39.1

* libopenssl-3-fips-provider-64bit-3.1.4-150600.5.39.1

*...

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-2025:03442-1
Release Date: 2025-09-30T14:54:16Z
Affected Products: * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

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security advisory DoS important out-of-bounds OpenSUSE openssl-3

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