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openSUSE Leap 15.6: 2025:1137-1 important: xz heap issue

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Calendar Grey April 3, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Critical notice for xz addresses a memory corruption issue in openSUSE, enhancing overall security measures. Implement the fix now.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for xz fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2025-31115: Fixed heap use after free and writing to an address based on

the null pointer plus an offset (bsc#1240414)

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-2025-1137=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-1137=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-1137=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (x86_64)

* xz-devel-32bit-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* liblzma5-32bit-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* liblzma5-32bit-debuginfo-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* xz-static-devel-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* xz-devel-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* xz-debugsource-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* xz-debuginfo-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* liblzma5-debuginfo-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* xz-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* liblzma5-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (noarch)

* xz-lang-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64_ilp32)

* liblzma5-64bit-debuginfo-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* xz-devel-64bit-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* liblzma5-64bit-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* xz-static-devel-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* xz-devel-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* xz-debugsource-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* xz-debuginfo-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* liblzma5-debuginfo-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* xz-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* liblzma5-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (noarch)

* xz-lang-5.4.1-150600.3.3.1

* Basesystem Module...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1240414

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-31115.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240414

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:1137-1
Release Date: 2025-04-03T15:11:09Z
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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