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openSUSE: Serious Memory Overflow and Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey December 11, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Security advisory update for openSUSE fixing PostgreSQL vulnerabilities with an important risk rating.
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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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 Server 15 SP4 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP4-LTSS-2025-4364=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-4364=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP3-2025-4364=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP4-2025-4364=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP5-2025-4364=1

* SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 LTS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-4.3-LTS-2025-4364=1

* SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 LTS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Retail-Branch-

Server-4.3-LTS-202...

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Package List

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* postgresql18-debuginfo-18.1-150200.5.3.1

* libecpg6-18.1-150200.5.3.1

* postgresql17-debuginfo-17.7-150200.5.19.1

* libecpg6-debuginfo-18.1-150200.5.3.1

* postgresql17-debugsource-17.7-150200.5.19.1

* libpq5-18.1-150200.5.3.1

* postgresql18-debugsource-18.1-150200.5.3.1

* libpq5-debuginfo-18.1-150200.5.3.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS (noarch)

* postgresql-docs-18-150400.4.21.2

* postgresql-server-18-150400.4.21.2

* postgresql-pltcl-18-150400.4.21.2

* postgresql-18-150400.4.21.2

* postgresql-plperl-18-150400.4.21.2

* postgresql-llvmjit-devel-18-150400.4.21.2

* postgresql-contrib-18-150400.4.21.2

* postgresql-plpython-18-150400.4.21.2

* postgresql-llvmjit-18-150400.4.21.2

* postgresql-devel-18-150400.4.21.2

* postgresql-server-devel-18-150400.4.21.2

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS (x86_64)

* libpq5-32bit-debuginfo-18.1-150200.5.3.1

* libpq5-32bit-18.1-150200.5.3.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS...

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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
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:4364-1
Release Date: 2025-12-11T10:12:53Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.3 * openSUSE Leap 15.4 * openSUSE Leap 15.5 * SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 * 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 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS * 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 for SAP Applications 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 * SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 * SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 LTS * SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 * SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 LTS * SUSE Manager Server 4.3 * SUSE Manager Server 4.3 LTS

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