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openSUSE 15.4/15.6: SUSE-SU-2025:1201-1 important: expat DoS

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Calendar Grey April 11, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
SUSE Security patch for expat resolves denial of service issue. Execute updates following advised procedures.
An update that solves one vulnerability and contains two features can now be installed.

Description

This update for expat fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2024-8176: Fixed denial of service from chaining a large number of

entities caused by stack overflow by resolving use of recursion

(bsc#1239618)

Other fixes: \- version update to 2.7.1 (jsc#PED-12500) Bug fixes: #980 #989

Restore event pointer behavior from Expat 2.6.4 (that the fix to CVE-2024-8176

changed in 2.7.0); affected API functions are: \- XML_GetCurrentByteCount \-

XML_GetCurrentByteIndex \- XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber \-

XML_GetCurrentLineNumber \- XML_GetInputContext Other changes: #976 #977

Autotools: Integrate files "fuzz/xml_lpm_fuzzer.{cpp,proto}" with Automake that

were missing from 2.7.0 release tarballs #983 #984 Fix printf format specifiers

for 32bit Emscripten #992 docs: Promote OpenSSF Best Practices self-

certification #978 tests/benchmark: Resolve mistaken double close #986 Address

compiler warnings #990 #993 Version info bumped from 11:1:10 (libexpat

_.so.1.10.1) to 11:2:10...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical important openSUSE expat

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:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-1201=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-1201=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2025-1201=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-1201=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-ESPOS-2025-1201=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-LTSS-2025-1201=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-ESPOS-2025-1201=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5

zypper in...

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Package List

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)

* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1

* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1

* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1

* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)

* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1

* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1

* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1

* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1

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

* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1

* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1

* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1

* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1

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

* expat-debugsource-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1

* expat-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1

* libexpat1-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1

* expat-debuginfo-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1

* libexpat1-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1

* libexpat-devel-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (x86_64)

* libexpat1-32bit-2.7.1-150400.3.28.1

*...

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References

* bsc#1239618

* jsc#PED-12500

* jsc#SLE-21253

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8176.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239618

* https://jira.suse.com/login.jsp?permissionViolation=true&os_destination=https%3A%2F%2Fjira.suse.com%2Fbrowse%2FPED-12500

* https://jira.suse.com/login.jsp?permissionViolation=true&os_destination=https%3A%2F%2Fjira.suse.com%2Fbrowse%2FSLE-21253

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:1201-1
Release Date: 2025-04-11T10:16:48Z
Affected Products: * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 * openSUSE Leap 15.4 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 * SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 * SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 * SUSE Manager Server 4.3

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