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openSUSE: 2025:01718-1 important: RCE in gstreamer-plugins-bad

suse
Calendar Grey May 28, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
The recent gstreamer-plugins-bad update fixes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution in openSUSE, making immediate action necessary
* bsc#1242809 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-3887

Summary

## This update for gstreamer-plugins-bad fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-3887: Fixed possible RCE vulnerability via buffer overflow in H265 Codec Parsing (bsc#1242809). ## 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-2025-1718=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-1718=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-1718=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP3-2025-1718=1

References

* bsc#1242809

Cross-

* CVE-2025-3887

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-3887 ( SUSE ): 8.6

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2025-3887 ( SUSE ): 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2025-3887 ( NVD ): 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

##

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-3887.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1242809

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:01718-1
Release Date: 2025-05-27T12:53:49Z
Rating: important

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