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openSUSE Leap 16.0: libxslt Important Denial of Service Fix 2025-20050-1

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Calendar Grey November 21, 2025
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Update for openSUSE Leap 16.0 addressing important libxslt vulnerabilities with fixes for denial of service and more.
An update that solves 2 vulnerabilities and has 2 bug fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for libxslt fixes the following issues:

Changes in libxslt:

- CVE-2025-11731: Fixed type confusion in exsltFuncResultCompfunction leading to denial of service (bsc#1251979)

- CVE-2025-10911: Fixed use-after-free with key data stored cross-RVT (bsc#1250553)

Patch instructions:

To install this openSUSE security 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 16.0

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-16.0-24=1

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Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

libexslt0-1.1.43-160000.3.1

libxslt-devel-1.1.43-160000.3.1

libxslt-tools-1.1.43-160000.3.1

libxslt1-1.1.43-160000.3.1

References

* bsc#1250553

* bsc#1251979

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10911.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-11731.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2025-20050-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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