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openSUSE xtrabackup Moderate Buffer Overflow Vulnerability 2026-0221-1

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Calendar Grey June 28, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Security update for xtrabackup on openSUSE addresses CVE-2025-5918 and other issues.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for xtrabackup fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2025-5918: embedded libarchive: Reading past EOF may be triggered

for piped file streams (boo#1244285)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate information leak OpenSUSE xtrabackup CVE-2025-5918

Patch

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 Backports SLE-15-SP7:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2026-221=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP7 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

xtrabackup-2.4.26-bp157.2.6.1

xtrabackup-test-2.4.26-bp157.2.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5918.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1244285

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:0221-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP7

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate information leak OpenSUSE xtrabackup CVE-2025-5918

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