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openSUSE: Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in postgresql17, 18

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Calendar Grey December 11, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This update addresses two important security issues in postgresql17 and postgresql18 on openSUSE and requires immediate action.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description

This update for postgresql17, postgresql18 fixes the following issues:

Changes in postgresql18:

* Fix build with uring for post SLE15 code streams.

Update to 18.1:

* https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-181-177-1611-1515-1420-and-1323-released-3171/

* https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/18.1/

* bsc#1253332, CVE-2025-12817: Missing check for CREATE privileges on the

schema in CREATE STATISTICS allowed table owners to create statistics in any

schema, potentially leading to unexpected naming conflicts.

* bsc#1253333, CVE-2025-12818: Several places in libpq were not sufficiently

careful about computing the required size of a memory allocation.

Sufficiently large inputs could cause integer overflow, resulting in an

undersized buffer, which would then lead to writing past the end of the

buffer.

* pg_config --libs returns -lnuma so we need to require it.

Update to 18.0:

*...

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Topics Covered

security advisory important PostgreSQL memory overflow OpenSUSE create privileges

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-2025-4363=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-4363=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-4363=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2025-4363=1

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP6-2025-4363=1

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP7-2025-4363=1

* Server Applications Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP6-2025-4363=1

* Server Applications Module 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP7-2025-4363=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (noarch)

* postgresql-plperl-18-150600.17.9.1

* postgresql-pltcl-18-150600.17.9.1

* postgresql-devel-18-150600.17.9.1

* postgresql-llvmjit-devel-18-150600.17.9.1

* postgresql-server-devel-18-150600.17.9.1

* postgresql-test-18-150600.17.9.1

* postgresql-docs-18-150600.17.9.1

* postgresql17-docs-17.7-150600.13.19.1

* postgresql18-docs-18.1-150600.13.3.1

* postgresql-server-18-150600.17.9.1

* postgresql-plpython-18-150600.17.9.1

* postgresql-contrib-18-150600.17.9.1

* postgresql-llvmjit-18-150600.17.9.1

* postgresql-18-150600.17.9.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* postgresql17-pltcl-17.7-150600.13.19.1

* postgresql18-mini-debugsource-18.1-150600.13.3.1

* postgresql17-server-devel-17.7-150600.13.19.1

* libpq5-18.1-150600.13.3.1

* postgresql17-server-devel-debuginfo-17.7-150600.13.19.1

* libecpg6-debuginfo-18.1-150600.13.3.1

* postgresql18-devel-18.1-150600.13.3.1

* postgresql18-llvmjit-debuginfo-18.1-150600.13.3.1

* postgresql17-contrib-17.7-150600.13.19.1

*...

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References

* bsc#1253332

* bsc#1253333

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-12817.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-12818.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253332

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253333

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:4363-1
Release Date: 2025-12-11T10:10:59Z
Affected Products: * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 * Basesystem Module 15-SP7 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * Server Applications Module 15-SP6 * Server Applications Module 15-SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 * SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP6 * SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP7

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory important PostgreSQL memory overflow OpenSUSE create privileges

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