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openSUSE Leap 15.3: buildah Important Container Escape CVE-2025-52881

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Calendar Grey November 12, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important SUSE security advisory for buildah resolves one significant vulnerability that may allow container breakouts.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for buildah fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2025-52881: Fixed container breakouts by bypassing runc's restrictions

for writing to arbitrary /proc files (bsc#1253096)

Other fixes:

* podman and buildah with runc 1.3.2 fail with lots of warnings as rootless

(bsc#1252543)

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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 15.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-4075=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-4075=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-4075=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP3-2025-4075=1

* SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1

zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-7.1-2025-4075=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* buildah-1.35.5-150300.8.46.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 (aarch64

x86_64)

* buildah-1.35.5-150300.8.46.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* buildah-1.35.5-150300.8.46.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 (ppc64le x86_64)

* buildah-1.35.5-150300.8.46.1

* SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 (aarch64 x86_64)

* buildah-1.35.5-150300.8.46.1

References

* bsc#1252543

* bsc#1253096

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-52881.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252543

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253096

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:4075-1
Release Date: 2025-11-12T10:35:26Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.3 * SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

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